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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A A T C H A P E L H I L L S C H O O L O F N U R S I N G • S p r i n g 2 0 0 4
Carolina
NURSING
Honor Roll of
Giving Issue
Dear Alumni and Friends,
Each year, we recognize the peo-ple
who have sustained the School
of Nursing with their gifts by pub-lishing
their names in our Honor
Roll of Giving. The list recognizes
gifts received in the fiscal year July
1, 2002 to June 30, 2003. It is our
way of paying tribute to you for your
tribute to us. Since becoming your
dean in 1999, one of my greatest
pleasures is meeting the many
alumni and friends who make our
work possible. Each year, when the
Honor Roll is published, I welcome
the opportunity to thank you again
for your loyalty to the School.
You and those you support,
our students and faculty, hold a
common bond. All of us cherish
the field of nursing for its value to
people and society. This year, when
new budget cuts challenge our
operations, I am especially grateful
for your continuing generosity.
Each gift you make, regardless
of amount, allows the School to
continue its tradition of excellence.
As you will read in this issue of
Carolina Nursing, our faculty con-tinue
to garner honors nationally
and throughout North Carolina.
The work we do in international
health in Malawi, Guatemala,
and Thailand is cited in the inter-national
media. As we go to press,
Dr. Joanne Harrell’s work to docu-ment
the incidence of cardiac risk
factors in over 3,000 North Carolina
children is being discussed in
newspapers and television shows
from England to Australia and
across the United States. From the
mountains to the sea, communities
in North Carolina are the benefici-aries
of our education and research.
The new building addition con-tinues
to be our highest fundraising
priority this year, and it is where we
need your help most. You have our
continuing gratitude for keeping
your alma mater in your hearts and
minds.
With very best wishes,
LINDA R. CRONENWETT, PHD, RN, FAAN
Dean
FROM THEDean
Carolina Nursing is published by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Nursing for the School’s alumni and friends.
Dean
Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor
Sunny Smith Nelson
Contributing Writers
Shelley Clayton
Kimberly Davis
Cami Harwood
Norma Hawthorne
Ami Shah
Anne Webb
Photography
Steve Exum
Images by Dwayne
Peggy Mattingly
Anne Webb
Steve Wood, University of Alabama
Design and Production
Alison Duncan Design
Office of Advancement
Norma Hawthorne, Director
Austin Johnson, Public Information Assistant
Sunny Smith Nelson, Associate Director, Public
Relations and Communications
Anne Webb, Associate Director, Alumni Affairs
and Annual Fund
Kimberly Davis and Ami Shah, Health Affairs
Communications Interns
Shelley Clayton, Work-Study Intern
School of Nursing
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
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Spring 2004 Carolina
NURSING
IN THIS ISSUE
6 Big Issues, Big Ideas
10 With A Little Help from My Friends: SON Aids Elders
at Local Center
11 SON Builds Local, International Bridges to Latino
Communities
12 Making That Leap: SON Grads Get Help in Transition
from Student to Professional Nurse
20 Honor Roll of Giving
REGULAR FEATURES
2 Roll Call
4 SONdries
13 Alumni News
16 Noteworthy Nurses
18 Development News
28 Alumni Notes
On the Cover: The continued support of alumni and friends is
helping the SON remain a leader in nursing education,
research and service.
Photo by Steve Exum
Dr. Linda Beeber is the winner of the
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
2003 Excellence in
Research Award.
Beeber was recognized
at the association’s
annual meeting in
October for her
research with depressed
low-income and Latina mothers. Beeber
also has been selected as the chair of
the 2003-2004 APNA Research Council,
where she leads the development
of a set of linked collaborative psychi-atric/
mental health nursing studies
on suicide.
Janet H. Blue, information and
technology systems director for the SON,
was elected to the UNC-Chapel Hill
University Managers Association Board
of Directors. The association offers a
forum for the exchange of information
relevant to management in the
University and is comprised of over
160 campus-wide managers.
Dr. Diane Holditch-Davis received
the Marlene Kramer Outstanding
Alumni Award from
the University of
Connecticut for her
significant contribu-tions
to the field of
nursing research. She
received her MS in
parent-child nursing in 1980 and her
PhD in developmental psychobiology in
1985 from the university.
Congratulations to Dr. Catherine
Ingram Fogel, one of only four
individuals in 2003 to
win the prestigious
Robert E. Bryan Public
Service Award. The
award is given by the
Carolina Center for
Public Service to
honor UNC students, staff and faculty
for exemplary public service. Fogel was
honored for her work to enhance the
health of incarcerated women.
Chris Harlan, a research instructor
for both the UNC Schools of Nursing
and Public Health, recently became a
member of the Orange County Board of
Health. She will utilize her experience
working in Latin America to help the
local Latino community during her
three-year term.
Congratulations to Dr. Gail
Mazzocco on receiving the Donald
L. Spencer Award from the Western
Maryland Area Health Education
Centers (WMAHEC). The award was
given to Mazzocco for her contributions
to the growth and vitality of WMAHEC
and for improving the quality of
health care for the citizens of western
Maryland. Mazzocco served as the west-ern
Maryland outreach coordinator for
the University of Maryland School of
Nursing before accepting the statewide
North Carolina AHEC nursing liaison
position at UNC.
Dr. Margaret S. Miles was honored
with a distinguished alumni award
from the University of Pittsburgh
School of Nursing. Miles, an MSN grad-uate
of the school in 1965, was chosen
for the award based on her leadership
abilities and significant contributions
to the profession and the school.
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce was
inducted as the president of the North
Carolina Nurses Association at its annu-al
conference in October. Pierce will
serve a two-year term. Her duties
include addressing nursing issues,
advocating for the health and well-being
of the state’s citizens and nurses
and serving members’ changing needs.
Dr. Joyce Rasin has been named as
one of the year’s 100 greatest nurses in
North Carolina by The
Great 100, Inc. She
was chosen based on
her work educating
health-care providers
across the state about
vulnerable popula-tions,
including older adults and ethnic
and cultural minorities. The Great 100,
Inc. is a grass-roots peer recognition
organization that annually honors the
nursing profession and recognizes
outstanding nurses in North Carolina.
Congratulations to Elizabeth
Tornquist, a SON lecturer and editori-al
consultant, on being named as an
honorary fellow of the American
Academy of Nursing. Tornquist is
known nationally among health-care
professionals as a leading grant-writing
instructor. With her editorial assistance,
SON researchers have submitted
enough successful grant applications to
raise the SON’s level of extramural
research funding from $22,000 in 1985
to over $10 million in 2002.
Fogel
4 CAROLINA NURSING
ROLL CALL
Holditch-Davis
Tornquist and Dean Linda Cronenwett
Rasin
Beeber
SPRING 2004 5
Dr. Susan Brunssen is one of the
SON’s newest assistant professors.
Brunssen joined the School in July, not
long after graduating from the SON’s
doctoral program in 2002. She has
extensive experience in pediatric and
neonatal nursing, and her research
focuses on the effects of inflammatory
insults on neurocognitive development
of premature babies.
Dr. Beverly Currence joined the
School in September as a research
assistant professor. She formerly served
as a research assistant professor in the
School of Medicine’s Department of
Radiology, where she supervised clinical
research initiatives in the breast imag-ing
section of the radiology laboratory
of the Lineberger Comprehensive
Cancer Center.
Dr. Donna Havens was recruited
to the position of academic division
co-chair, beginning her work in August
2003. Havens comes to UNC from the
School of Nursing at Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, where she
was the Elouise Ross Eberly professor of
nursing and the professor-in-charge of
research. She also served as a senior
research associate with the Institute for
Policy Research and Evaluation in the
Department of Health Policy and
Administration and a professor of
health services research in the
Department of Health Evaluation
Sciences in the Penn State College of
Medicine. Her research interests lie in
the organization of nursing practice in
hospitals and the quality of patient
care. She has conducted research on
professional nursing practice models
and hospitals known for excellence.
Dr. Linda Hughes is a new research
associate professor with the SON.
Hughes was a postdoctoral fellow at
the SON before joining the faculty and
has served as a faculty member at the
schools of nursing at the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston,
Wichita State University and the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center. Her past research focused on
evaluating the effectiveness of nursing
interventions on patient outcomes,
specifically for older patients with
cancer receiving home nursing care.
Currently, she is investigating hospital
nurses' use of discretion in the
prevention and management of adverse
patient events.
Dr. Mary H. Palmer, Umphlet
distinguished professor in aging, has
been promoted from associate professor
to professor. She recently received a
grant totaling nearly $650,000 to lead
a project focusing on improving the
nursing care of acutely ill elders.
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce has been
promoted from associate professor to
professor.
Dr. Suzanne Thoyre has been
promoted from assistant professor to
associate professor with tenure.
Joan Vinson joined the SON in June
as the School’s associate director of
admissions and student services. Vinson
is a double Carolina alumna, having
received her BSN in 1985 and her MSN
in 1992. She most recently served as the
nurse manager of the intensive care
nursery at WakeMed and as the associ-ate
director for perinatal education at
the Wake Area Health Education Center.
Dr. Maihan Vu is a new research
assistant professor whose research
interests include program evaluation,
qualitative research and adolescent
health. Vu received a PhD in health
behavior and health education from
UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Public
Health in 2003 and now serves on
Dr. Joanne Harrell’s studies investigat-ing
the most effective ways to treat or
prevent the development of pediatric
type 2 diabetes (STOPP-T2D).
Dr. Vivian West is a research assistant
professor with STOPP-T2D as well. West
comes to the SON from East Carolina
University’s Center for Health Care
Sciences Communication and
Telemedicine Center, where she acted
as the project evaluation and research
director for research funded by the
National Library of Medicine.
Lisa Woodley joined the School in
August as a clinical assistant professor.
Woodley received her MSN from the
University of British Columbia and
served as a nursing instructor at
Langara College in Vancouver and the
University of New Mexico College of
Nursing before joining the SON.
Woodley’s areas of teaching expertise
include pediatrics and medical-surgical
nursing.
New clinical instructors include
Rebecca Beadle, Nanette Blois-
Martin, April DeGuzman, Ted
Heiser, Mary Ann Meyer, Laura
C. Nasir, Beth Pack and Megan
Parpart.
New research instructors include
Virginia Gamble, Karl Gustafson,
Phyllis Kennel and Chris Raines.
New Faculty and Faculty Promotions
6 CAROLINA NURSING
“We have been
able to broaden
and share our
knowledge.
There are many
things we can
learn from one
another, even if
there are cultur-al
variations
between our
ways of care.”
PAMELA MSUKWA
SONDRIES
Look at a map of Africa and
pinpoint Malawi to the southeast.
Now scan your eyes over that map,
traveling over African savannahs
and ocean waters to the sandhills of
North Carolina. Eight nurses from
this small, landlocked country made
this same journey in July to learn
more about women’s health, partic-ularly
in the areas of reproductive
health and HIV/AIDS prevention,
treatment and research methods.
The UNC School of Nursing and
the UNC School of Medicine’s
Department of Infectious Diseases,
which administers an HIV-related
research facility in Malawi where
these nurses work, sponsored the
trip with funding from a National
Institutes of Health Fogarty
International Research
Collaboration Award.
The nurses spent 12 days in
Chapel Hill sitting in on lectures
and attending clinics with physi-cians
and nurse practitioners at
UNC Hospitals and the Durham and
Wake County Health Departments
to learn new skills and practices.
“We have been able to broaden and
share our knowledge,” commented
Pamela Msukwa. “There are many
things we can learn from one
another, even if there are cultural
variations between our ways of care.
Everyone has made learning so easy
for us. Our hosts have made us feel
like we have come into our own
mother’s home.”
SON faculty members Sally
Laliberte, a midwife and nurse prac-titioner,
and professor Dr. Margaret
Miles served as instructors and
guides for the women during their
stay. “This exchange has been so
important,” says Laliberte. “To hear
what is done in Malawi in maternal
and child health has been enlight-ening,
and I feel like I’ve only
begun to learn. Both groups have
expanded their base of knowledge
through this experience.”
Miles is continuing her work
with the Department of Infectious
Diseases to plan further training
opportunities through the Fogarty
grant. She also is working toward
sending undergraduate students to
Malawi for a clinical practicum in
the summer through support from a
US Department of Education grant.
Malawi Nurses Visit UNC to Learn
More about Women’s Health
Malawi nurses Pamela Msukwa, Jacqueline Nkhoma, Agatha Bulah, Charity Salima, Rhoda Mwanja, Wezi Msungama,
Tiwonge Msopa and Patricia Mawindo visited Chapel Hill last summer to learn more about women’s reproductive
health. SON faculty members Sally Laliberte and Dr. Margaret Miles served as their guides and instructors.
SPRING 2004 7
Coretta Dorsey recently found
herself in front of a classroom of
undergraduate nursing students at
the Medical University of South
Carolina and, frighteningly enough,
in charge of teaching them princi-ples
of med-surg nursing. Jeanette
Humphreys had 15 years between
her teaching experiences and
thought a refresher course or two
would help her transition back into
her role as an educator. They both
eagerly enrolled in the SON’s new
Certificate in Nursing Education
program.
Created by Drs. Bonnie Angel
and Barbara Jo Foley, the certificate
program offers both new and
experienced nurse educators the
opportunity to learn the latest in
teaching skills and practices. As
the first graduates of the certificate
program, they both said they felt
more prepared for their roles as
nurse educators.
“Among the important things I
learned from this experience were to
use a variety of teaching styles and
to strive to meet the needs of your
audience,” explained Dorsey, who is
herself a doctoral candidate at the
University of South Carolina. “I
think it’s certainly necessary for
those in academia to have some sort
of certification as educators since
teaching is often not a part of the
content that is covered in nursing
programs. This program helps tie
up those loose ends.”
“I now see myself as a planter
of seeds,” said Humphreys. “This
program has made teaching more
fun and challenged me to be more
creative.”
Other recent graduates of the
program include Emily Whitehead
and Mary Tilly.
“First Graduates” Receive Certificate in Nursing Education
Drs. Bonnie Angel and Barbara Jo
Foley present Coretta Dorsey with
her Certificate in Nursing Education.
Drs. Margaret Miles, Suzanne
Thoyre and Marcia Van Riper
attended the Third Nordic
Conference of the Nordic
Collaboration of Nurses Working
with Children and Their Families in
Reykjavik, Iceland, in October. The
purpose of the trip was to facilitate
network building and international
dialogue on children’s health,
specifically in child development,
the modern lifestyles of today’s
families and the administration of
health care for the child and family
in a changing society. Each faculty
member gave a presentation relat-ing
to these themes. Miles spoke on
“Helping Parents of Hospitalized
Children: The Nurse-Parent Support
Model,” while Van Riper presented
work on the ethical, legal and social
implications of advances in genet-ics,
including the impact of genetic
testing on families. Thoyre, an
expert on feeding issues for pre-term
infants, gave a presentation on
creating opportunities for positive
feeding experiences. She also visited
with neonatal nurses at Reykjavik’s
Children’s Hospital. “This was a
really thought-provoking trip,”
says Thoyre. “It was an excellent
opportunity to look at how societal
supports affect the feeding decisions
families make.”
SON Faculty Go to the Edge of the Earth for
Research on Children’s Health
BIG IDEAS
8 CAROLINA NURSING
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
What are the big issues in nursing? We asked this of several
School of Nursing faculty members who serve as leaders in
nursing organizations and their responses were varied.
Answers included attrition within the profession, lack of fund-ing
to support education and the importance of community
involvement. Do you know what your response would be to
this question? Or how you would handle those issues? Read
on to see if you agree with what these nursing leaders have to
say and how they are hoping to make a difference through
their involvement in their respective professional associations.
BIG ISSUES
SPRING 2004 9
Measuring Nursing’s
Contribution to the
Quality of Health Care
DR. RUMAY ALEXANDER
• SON Clinical Assistant Professor and
Director of Multicultural Affairs
• National Quality Forum Member
www.qualityforum.org
“Nursing care is critical to the
quality of patient care and the suc-cess
of any health-care
delivery
system. Given the
importance of
nursing care, the
absence of stan-dardized
nursing
care performance
measures is a major void in health-care
quality assurance and work
system performance. An apprecia-tion
by all health-care stakeholders
for the importance of nurses to
patient outcomes in tangible, meas-urable
ways is very important to me,
and as a member of the National
Quality Forum’s Nursing Care
Performance Measures Steering
Committee, I hope to make it per-fectly
clear that nurses make the
difference in the care of a patient.
The National Quality Forum is a
private, non-profit organization
with the mission of improving
American health care through
endorsement of consensus-based
national standards for measurement
and reporting of health-care
performance data that provide
meaningful information to the
public and health-care providers
about whether care is safe, timely,
patient-centered, beneficial,
equitable and efficient. We are
working to establish consensus on
a set of evidence-based measures
for evaluating the performance of
nursing in acute care hospitals
and the implementation of those
measures within health-care
organizations to improve nursing
care and patient outcomes. The US
government will use the results of
our work as standards of care except
when inconsistent with existing
standards or laws.”
Creating Nurse
Educators
DR. BONNIE ANGEL
• SON Clinical Associate Professor
• North Carolina League for Nursing
President-Elect
www.uncg.edu/nur/nclnhome.htm
“It is imperative that we develop
and support educators as we face
the impending fac-ulty
shortage in
academia, which
may worsen the
current shortage of
nurses in practice
or educational
roles. I strongly
believe we should support multiple
efforts to attract and develop new
educators as well as to re-energize
and retain current educators. The
North Carolina League for Nursing
is unique in its specific focus on
issues related to nursing education
in all levels of academic, staff devel-opment
and patient education are-nas.
The NCLN offers nurse educa-tors
the opportunity to discuss edu-cational
issues and seek innovative
solutions through a variety of strate-gies.
For example, in 2003 to 2005,
the NCLN will continue with their
scholarship awards for students and
teaching excellence awards for
nurse educators. We will also begin
an annual nurse educator confer-ence
to address the needs of nurse
educators locally and nationally. My
work in NCLN provides an exciting
opportunity to enhance the profes-sional
growth of nurse educators in
North Carolina.”
Developing Leadership
to Stop Attrition
DR. BARBARA JO FOLEY
• SON Clinical Associate Professor and
Director of Continuing Education
• North Carolina Organization of
Nurse Leaders Board Member
“The North Carolina
Organization of Nurse Leaders is
vitally important to
nursing in the state
because nursing
leaders play a criti-cal
role in solving
the nursing short-age.
Many studies
say that nurses
leave the field because they are
dissatisfied with the environment.
The organization provides advocacy
for a good working environment for
nurses and assists nurse leaders in
identifying and obtaining the
resources necessary to provide that
good working environment. As
co-chair of the program/education
committee and a member of the
board of directors, I have found the
most important issues facing the
organization are the nursing short-age
and patient safety. These issues
are important because they directly
impact the welfare of patients. One
thing that I am doing to contribute
to the resolution of the nursing
shortage is to offer management
training to nurses and other clinical
managers through the School of
Nursing’s Certificate in Clinical
Leadership Program. One of the
current beliefs is that nurse attrition
will be lower if the nurse managers
are experienced in leadership. I
believe this new program is one
important way to address this
issue.”
Alexander
Angel Foley
“Nursing care is
critical to the quality
of patient care and
the success of any
health-care delivery
system.”
DR. RUMAY ALEXANDER
10 CAROLINA NURSING
Funding the Future
of Nursing
DR. LINDA CRONENWETT
• SON Dean and Professor
• North Carolina Council of Deans
and Directors of Baccalaureate and
Higher Degree Programs President
• North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Task Force on the Nursing Shortage
Member
“To produce the number of
nurses needed for basic and
advanced practice,
faculty and scien-tist
positions and
nursing adminis-trator
and execu-tive
roles, we must
ensure a rich
supply of nurses
educated at the university and colle-giate
level. In North Carolina, we
are experiencing faculty shortages,
as well as shortages in other nurs-ing
fields requiring bachelor, master
and doctorate degrees, yet our
schools are graduating 40% of new
nurses with bachelor’s degrees and
60% with associate’s degrees. The
North Carolina Council of Deans
and Directors of Baccalaureate and
Higher Degree Programs provides a
collective voice for serving the peo-ple
of North Carolina by advancing
the quality of baccalaureate and
graduate programs in nursing in
the state. We seek to ensure that any
changes to the state’s student enroll-ments
maintains or increases the
percentage educated in universities
and colleges. We also seek increased
support for graduate education in
nursing. We would like to see target-ed
legislative support for funding of
faculty and staff positions to enable
the schools of nursing to meet the
state’s need for increased numbers
of BSN, MSN and PhD graduates.
We seek this support because state
support for public universities, the
primary providers of graduate edu-cation
in nursing in North Carolina,
has declined for three years in a
row. We cannot increase the supply
of BSN and higher degree graduates
without restoring and adding to the
basic funding required to support
these labor-intensive programs.”
Revising Educational
Standards
DR. BEVERLY FOSTER
• SON Clinical Associate Professor and
Director of Undergraduate Programs
• North Carolina Board of Nursing
and National Council of State
Boards of Nursing Member
www.ncbon.com
www.ncsbn.org
“I currently serve as an elected
education representative on the
North Carolina
Board of Nursing
and as a member
of the National
Council of State
Boards of Nursing.
While there are
many different
issues that these two organizations
are dealing with, one that I am
personally involved in is the review
of educational standards. At the
NCBON, we’re looking to see how
standards for nursing schools
should be revised to become more
contemporary, and we’re working
with several different educational
agencies and local community
members to achieve this goal.
This may be our most challenging
objective, as any new regulations
must go before the public and the
state legislature for approval.
Another provocative issue the Board
is exploring is its role as a regulato-ry
agency. The Board is traditionally
seen as a regulator, but I would like
to see the Board continue to take on
a more supportive role that provides
consultation to nurses and educa-tional
institutions. I would like for
nurses to increasingly receive guid-ance
and advice from the Board, not
just mandates and regulations.”
Promoting Ethics in
Research
DR. MARGARET MILES
• SON Professor
• Southern Nursing Research Society
Vice-President Emerita
www.snrs.org
“The Southern Nursing
Research Society is a regional
nursing research
organization that
supports and
encourages the
development of
nursing scholar-ship
in the south-ern
region of the
US. The main activity of SNRS is the
annual meeting, which I was in
charge of for the past two years as
the Society’s vice-president. I now
serve as the advisor to the new vice-president.
The purpose of the meet-ing
is to give senior researchers, new
investigators and students the
opportunity to present their
research, which allows their fellow
researchers the chance to build
on their own research, learn new
methods and debate about research
methods and outcomes. Without
such opportunities, science would be
slowed and fewer nurses would
become interested in and sustain an
interest in research endeavors. One
of the biggest issues I focused on
during my time as vice-president
was how to include ethical issues
and standards into the annual
meeting on a regular basis. These
issues included the new regulations
announced by both HIPAA and the
National Institutes of Health.
These are important to all nurse
researchers, regardless of their area
of expertise or level of experience.”
Cronenwett Foster
Miles
“To produce the
number of nurses
needed for basic and
advanced practice,
faculty and scientist
positions and nursing
administrator and
executive roles, we
must ensure a rich
supply of nurses edu-cated
at the university
and collegiate level.”
DR. LINDA CRONENWETT
Supporting Public
Health Nurses
DR. SONDA OPPEWAL
• SON Clinical Associate Professor and
Associate Dean for Community
Partnerships and Practice
• American Public Health Association’s
Public Health Nursing Section
Immediate-Past Section Chair
www.csuchico.edu/~horst/
“The American Pubic Health
Association works to improve the health
of Americans and
global neighbors. The
25 sections are the
organizational unit of
APHA’s membership.
Achievements of
the Public Health
Nursing Section while
I served as chair include providing writ-ten
testimony on nurses’ work environ-ments
and patient safety to an Institute
of Medicine study committee; submit-ting
a policy resolution to APHA entitled
‘The Impact of a Public Health Nursing
Shortage on the Nation’s Public Health
Infrastructure;’ and working with Quad
Council members to finalize public
health nursing competencies. The other
three partners that comprise the Quad
Council of Public Health Nursing
Organizations include the Association of
State and Territorial Directors of
Nursing, the Association of Community
Health Nurse Educators and the
American Nurses Association’s Congress
on Nursing Practice and Economics.
Our section also was successful in
achieving specialty nursing organiza-tion
status from the American Nurses
Credentialing Center so that our Section
can apply for provider and approver sta-tus
for continuing education credits.
This is a tremendous opportunity to
advance continuing education for pub-lic
health nurses. Last spring, our
Section developed a statement on small-pox
vaccination and emergency pre-paredness
that was endorsed by the
Quad Council. The statement on small-pox
vaccination and emergency pre-paredness
emphasized the importance
of strengthening existing public health
systems so that public health workers
can efficiently respond to health threats.
Our hope is that all of these achieve-ments
will fortify the public health
nursing workforce and ultimately
improve the health of all people.”
Ensuring an Adequate
Workforce
DR. SUSAN FOLEY PIERCE
• SON Professor
• North Carolina Nurses Association
President
www.ncnurses.org
“Legislators, policy makers and
leaders of other health professions
all turn to the
North Carolina
Nurses Association
to obtain nursing’s
position on a vari-ety
of issues related
not only to health-care
delivery, but
also to the health and well-being of
North Carolina citizens. NCNA is
therefore the voice for professional
nursing in our state. The most com-pelling
issue for NCNA is clearly the
evolving and increasing nursing
shortage. NCNA has formed a part-nership
with the North Carolina
Institute of Medicine to convene a
yearlong process of problem-solving
solutions to this crisis. By winter, the
task force will issue its recommenda-tions,
broadly addressing the issue
from the supply-education side, from
the retention-workplace side, from
the regulatory side and from the
recruitment side. Health care cannot
be delivered without an adequate
nursing workforce. ‘Adequate’
means not only numbers, but also
properly educated and experienced
nurses working in positions that are
both challenging and satisfying. The
health of our citizens depends on us
solving these issues. If the task force
can bring about even one recom-mendation
in each of these areas, all
of our work will be well worth it.”
Advancing Community-
Focused Education
DR. RICHARD REDMAN
• SON Professor and Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs
• Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health Board Member
www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
“Colleges and universities
have used communities and their
resources as ‘educa-tional
labs’ where
students learn and
practice their pro-fessional
skills
taught in the class-room,
but the expe-rience
has often
stopped short of making a difference
in communities. Colleges and
universities are tremendous
resources that can help communities
in so many ways, but often these
resources haven’t been shared or had
an impact. Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health began in
the early 1990s as part of a national
movement to look at ways that
health professions schools might
engage with their communities.
I have served on CCPH’s board of
directors since 2002 and will serve a
four-year term. This experience has
transformed how I view universities
and communities working together.
I think the core mission of CCPH is
also the biggest issue it deals with:
how institutions of higher learning
can develop active, meaningful part-nerships
with communities. These
partnerships can help communities
address some of the pressing prob-lems
they face today. The partner-ships
also provide a powerful educa-tional
approach for students and
faculty in the health professions.
We all live in communities that are
struggling with pressing problems.
Linking educational institutions
with communities is a powerful way
to make a difference.”
Oppewal
Pierce
Redman
“Health care cannot
be delivered without
an adequate nursing
workforce. ‘Adequate’
means not only num-bers,
but also properly
educated and experi-enced
nurses working
in positions that are
both challenging and
satisfying.”
DR. SUSAN FOLEY PIERCE
SPRING 2004 11
12 CAROLINA NURSING
BY AMI SHAH
The independent Anne Harris
could never fathom living in a
nursing home or hiring a full-time
caregiver. At the same time, howev-er,
she is the first to admit she needs
a little extra assistance these days.
“I was scared to stay at home by
myself during the day,” explains
Harris, a gentle older woman with a
quick smile. “So my husband start-ed
looking for a place for me to stay
while he was at work.”
In their search to find some-where
for Harris to pass the day, the
couple came across the Central
Orange Adult Day Health Center.
Recognizing the county’s grow-ing
senior population and its need
for assistance, the Center opened in
March 2003 as a part of the Orange
County Department on Aging’s
Master Plan. It is the first of its kind
in the county, meeting a need that
is growing exponentially, says
Steven Reda, the Center’s former
program director.
“The senior population in
Orange County is expected to
increase by 130% by the year 2020,”
he explains. “There are currently
more older adults than school chil-dren
in Orange County, and these
numbers are expected to only
increase.”
The Center currently serves
around eight to 10 seniors a day,
with the cost for participation deter-mined
on a sliding scale based on
an individual’s ability to pay.
Transportation is provided for all
Orange County residents as well in
an effort to make the Center accessi-ble
for more seniors.
Dr. Sonda Oppewal, the School
of Nursing’s associate dean for com-munity
partnerships and practice,
worked with the Orange County
Department on Aging to establish a
contract to provide nursing services.
Jo Ann Hendricks now provides pro-fessional
nursing care to the partici-pants
four hours each day the
Center is open. The arragement
enhances clinical practice, educa-tional
and research opportunities
for SON students and faculty, says
Oppewal.
“The School of Nursing’s
involvement with this project builds
on the strength of our faculty in the
area of geriatric health,” she
explains. “We knew the Center
would provide a great opportunity
for scholarly research and a positive
learning atmosphere for students to
help improve and maintain the
wellness of the elders in the com-munity.”
Their work is critically impor-tant
for the Center to meet its goals
of helping seniors remain independ-ent,
providing support to families
and caregivers and preventing
unnecessary institutionalization.
Among the services provided are
health education, medication
management, monthly physical
assessments and collaboration
with clients’ various health-care
providers to ensure a consistent
plan of care. Keeping the seniors
intellectually stimulated through
reminiscing activities, arts and
crafts, singing and field trips are
part of the job, too. According to
Hendricks, both seniors and staff
benefit from the interaction.
“The Center is a wonderful place
for seniors to make new friends,
participate in meaningful activities
and maintain and improve their
physical and cognitive abilities
while feeling welcome and safe,”
she says. “The students from the
School of Nursing benefit as well as
they are exposed to a different side
of nursing. There is prevention and
management, individual and popu-lation-
focused activities and clinical
and public health services.
Hopefully, some of them will want
to become more involved with sen-iors
in the community as this popu-lation
and need is rapidly increas-ing.”
Isabelle Wauters, a student in
the SON’s 14-month BSN program,
worked there during the fall semes-ter
as a part of her public health
nursing class.
“I started at the Center on
September 3 and went there every
Wednesday,” says Wauters. “I found
that the Center is a good place for
people who are losing their inde-pendence.
Because of dementia or
other health problems, these clients
cannot lead an independent life,
and they need to be monitored,
cared for and stimulated. The
Center provides a safe haven for
them five days a week, and it gives
their caregiver a break.”
For Harris and many seniors like
her, the Center, its nurses and all of
its services are a welcomed addition
to the community.
“Everyone is so nice and treats
me so well,” says Harris. “I don’t
know what I would do without it.”
“The Center is a
wonderful place for
seniors to make new
friends, participate in
meaningful activities
and maintain
and improve their
physical and cognitive
abilities while feeling
welcome and safe.”
JO ANN HENDRICKS
With a Little Help from My Friends:
SON Aids Elders at Local Center
Anne Harris gets encouraging words and a check on her blood
pressure from Jo Ann Hendricks, a registered nurse contracted
through the SON to assist Center clients with their health needs.
SPRING 2004 13
Christina Harlan has spent a
good deal of time wandering the
world, learning the languages and
customs of people different from
herself. Some of her fondest memo-ries
are from her time living and
traveling in Latin America, where
she learned to speak Spanish,
Portuguese and Haitian Creole. Now
back in the United States and serv-ing
as a research instructor at the
UNC Schools of Nursing and Public
Health, she has found that her
understanding of Latino culture is
an asset in her work with patients of
Hispanic origin. It was thus espe-cially
heartening to her when sever-al
of her students said they wanted
to learn more about the language
and culture of their Latino patients.
“Persons of Hispanic or Latino
origin make up almost five percent
of North Carolina’s total population,
and Latinos now represent the
largest minority group in the United
States,” notes Harlan. “The students
recognized the need for more nurses
to speak Spanish in order to connect
with the Latino community.”
Harlan and SON associate pro-fessor
Dr. Janna Dieckmann knew
their required community health
nursing courses offered the perfect
opportunity to help their students
make this connection. With grant
support from the University Center
for International Studies and the
North Carolina Area Health
Education Centers, Harlan and
Dieckmann are developing both
local and international opportuni-ties
for their students to work with
more Latino communities.
¡HOLA-NC!, or Health
Opportunities for Latino Awareness
in Nursing Curricula, is the more
localized component of their efforts.
“The goal of ¡HOLA-NC! is to
weave a Latino-focused thread
through both the theoretical
content and clinical experiences of
students,” explains Dieckmann.
“That’s why we’re working to
develop new Latino-focused sites
appropriate for clinical placements,
externships, honors and independ-ent
study research projects and
serving-learning opportunities.”
Sites now being developed around
central North Carolina include local
community centers serving Latinos
such as El Centro Latino and
Piedmont Health Services.
Another important component
of the program, adds Dieckmann,
is that students are encouraged to
participate in programs such as
La Charla or ¡A Su Salud!, which
are Spanish language and culture
classes offered at UNC targeted at
health professions students.
Harlan knows from first-hand
experience, though, that the best
way to learn more about a language
and culture is to immerse oneself
in it. That’s why the study abroad
experience in Antigua, Guatemala,
she has developed for students is
especially noteworthy. For ten days
in March, Harlan is leading a group
there to study the language,
customs and health-care practices
of the country. Students will live
with local families, tour the
area’s clinics and attend intensive
language classes.
“International content enhances
students’ sense of themselves as citi-zens
of the world with skills to work
effectively with patients, their fami-lies
and communities of all back-grounds
and life experiences,” she
explains. “It would also influence
their fellow students. With such a
tight-knit group, constantly inter-acting
in various courses and clini-cal
practica within one curriculum,
international experiences of some
will link to all, given class discus-sions,
group assignments, problem-based
learning and more.”
Harlan and Dieckmann believe
their efforts and those of their
students are significant steps in
helping eliminate the cultural and
language barriers that contribute to
disparities in health care for Latinos
in the state.
“The education of health
professionals includes imparting
both knowledge and the ability to
apply that knowledge,” says Harlan.
“We are working to offer an exciting
chance to do both.”
BY CAMI HARWOOD AND SUNNY SMITH NELSON
“The goal of
¡HOLA-NC! is to
weave a Latino-focused
thread
through both the
theoretical con-tent
and clinical
experiences of
students.”
DR. JANNA DIECKMANN
Christina Harlan stands in front of the display that she
and her daughter, Noel Stephen, created to publicize
the School’s study abroad experience in Guatemala.
SON Builds Local,
International
Bridges to Latino
Communities
14 CAROL INA NUR S ING
Making that Leap:
SON Grads Get Help in Transition
from Student to Professional Nurse
BY KIMBERLY DAVIS
You remember your first days
on the floor as a registered nurse—
the nerves, the unfamiliarity, the
nearly overwhelming responsibility.
What was it that got you over those
hurdles and helped you learn to
love your job? Perhaps a more
experienced nurse mentor who took
you under his or her wing, someone
who had experienced the same
emotions you were struggling with?
A smoother transition from student
to nurse is the goal of many health-care
administrators, and a new
program at UNC is exploring how
to accomplish this goal through
innovative means.
The UNC School of Nursing and
UNC Hospitals are serving as a beta
test-site for a year-long, post-bac-calaureate
nurse residency program
that started in July 2003. Sponsored
by the University Healthsystems
Consortium and the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing,
this program’s purpose is to aid
in the transition of the recent
baccalaureate graduate into a
professional nursing role.
Positive feedback from last year’s
alpha test-sites prompted UNC
Hospitals to volunteer as a beta test-site.
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce, a SON
professor and coordinator for the
program, credits the strength of the
reputations of Dr. Mary Tonges, UNC
Hospitals’ senior vice-president and
chief nursing officer, and Dean
Linda Cronenwett for the selection
of UNC Hospitals as a test-site.
Fifty-nine new BSN graduates
hired by UNC Hospitals between May
15 and August 15, 2003 have been
the first to experience the residency
program. The first phase of the
program, which lasted from July
2003 to January 2004, consisted of
four seminars covering a curricu-lum
set forth by UHC. Some of the
topics addressed were incorporating
evidence-based practice, managing
the changing patient, offering end
of life care and utilizing resources
on the unit.
The second phase of the
program, started in February,
consists of interactive discussions.
Nurse residents meet in small
groups with an assigned UNC
Hospitals resident facilitator and
a UNC SON faculty member.
UNC Hospitals’ program coordi-nator
Deonni van der Bergh
explains the role of the resident
facilitator as that of an expert nurse
and role model. The resident facili-tator
is someone who “will open the
resident’s eyes to the application of
his or her existing knowledge base
in the clinical setting.”
Resident facilitators represent a
number of practice areas, including
operating rooms, intensive care
units, medical-surgical units,
neurosciences/psychiatry, the
NC Jaycee Burn Center and the
NC Children’s Hospital.
The other half of the mentoring
team, the SON faculty member, has
the same basic goals as the hospital
resident facilitators and shares
responsibilities in leading the
interactive discussions. These
discussions use case studies and
examples to focus on professional
role development, patient safety
and outcomes, leadership and
development of a career plan.
This year is the only commit-ment
to the UHC nurse residency
program, though Pierce and van
der Bergh expect that a yearlong
residency program will continue in
following years, building on the
program evaluation and successes
of this year’s pilot.
“In this time of nursing short-age,
retaining registered nurses in
the acute care workplace is key,”
notes Pierce. “The transition from
student to professional nurse often
determines whether a nurse stays in
acute care or leaves. At the end of
the program, we are hoping that the
residents will be more satisfied with
their nursing roles in acute care
because they are more comfortable
with their responsibilities, are more
clear about the role of the profes-sional
nurse and are better able to
match their unique talents with an
area of nursing practice.”
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce and Deonni van der Bergh (standing)
talk with the UNC Hospitals’ first nurse residents about their
experiences as new nurses.
PHOTO BY PEGGY MATTINGLY
SPRING 2004 15
ALUMNI NEWS
The School of Nursing Alumni
Association Board of Directors
held its annual meeting on Friday,
October 17 at the Carolina Club.
President Tonya Rutherford-
Hemming (BSN ’93, MSN ’01) led
the meeting. Five new directors were
welcomed to the board, including
Megan Bumgarner (BSN ’02),
Nancy Freeman (BSN ’73), Jona
Martino (BSN ’03), Evelyn Paul
(BSN ’75), and Glenda Wooten (BSN
’82).
The directors learned about new
initiatives at the School and new
challenges facing its leaders. A high-light
of the day was a presentation
by fellow board members Geri
Laport (BSN ’55) and Mary Lou
Booth (BSN ’57). The duo shared
their experiences on what life was
like for the first Carolina nursing
students in the 1950s.
Working committee plans for the
year include emphasizing the
regional continuing education
programs for alumni and making
more attempts at outreach through
events, e-mail and encouraging
reunions. Programs for students also
remain a priority. The full board
voted for a change in bylaws to
expand the awards program. The
group also expressed concerns over
the budget cuts facing the school
and the effect this has on students,
faculty, staff and learning facilities.
Further developing alumni interest
in and support for the SON is an
important goal in the coming year.
The board bid farewell to four
departing members who have given
valuable service to the organization.
Abby Ensign (BSN ’00), Mary
Holtschneider (BSN ’95), Susan
King-Zeller (BSN ’95) and Jo-Anne
Trowbridge Martin (BSN ’69) were
all recognized for their outstanding
contributions to the board and asso-ciation.
There are many opportunities to
participate in Alumni Association
activities for board members and
non-members alike. Please contact
Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 or
Anne_Webb@unc.edu if you are
interested in joining the alumni
board, hosting a regional event,
planning a class reunion or partici-pating
in a career panel for students.
Alumni Board of Directors Focuses on
Outreach and Support for Upcoming Year
The Alumni Board of Directors held a productive
meeting during Alumni Weekend.
The doctoral program at the
School of Nursing has been preparing
nursing scholars and scientists for
over a decade. Last spring, SON PhD
alumni, current doctoral students and
faculty came together to celebrate this
history and to honor Dr. Carol Hogue,
former associate professor and associ-ate
dean of graduate studies, on the
occasion of her retirement.
The reunion began with a lunch-eon
for all attendees in Carrington
Hall. Sponsored by the SON Alumni
Association, this was an opportunity
for each participant to share current
endeavors and career highlights.
Dean Linda Cronenwett and Dr. Diane
Holditch-Davis, the director of doctor-al
and post-doctoral programs, led the
discussion. The teaching, research
and practice experiences in the room
were inspiring, many attendees com-mented,
as they learned about the
activities of their peers.
“Time, distance, change—
nothing can erase the bond of our
experience during our doctoral educa-tion,”
noted Carolyn Graham (PhD
’97). “It was great to see each other,
catch up on what we're all doing and
to stand as evidence of life after the
PhD program!”
Reunion participants and others
from the community enjoyed an
afternoon lecture by Dr. Kathleen
Buckwalter, a leader in gerontological
nursing. Buckwalter, the University
of Iowa associate provost for health
sciences, director of the UI Center on
Aging and a nursing professor, is
internationally recognized for her
research in psychiatric nursing, aging
and long-term care.
Following Buckwalter’s lecture, a
retirement tribute and reception hon-oring
Hogue was held at the Carolina
Inn. Doctoral alumni, students, facul-ty
and friends enjoyed sharing time
with Hogue and celebrating her rich
history of service to the School and
the graduate program. Hogue joined
the School of Nursing in 1986, where
she served as associate professor until
2002. She also held the position of
associate dean for graduate studies
from 1992-2000.
Dr. Carol Hogue and family
SON Hosts PhD Reunion and Retirement
Celebration for Dr. Carol Hogue
“Time, distance,
change���nothing
can erase the
bond of our
experience during
our doctoral
education.”
CAROLYN GRAHAM, PHD ’97
16 CAROLINA NURSING
ALUMNI NEWS
Festivities began on Friday,
October 17, when members of the
BSN Class of ’63 enjoyed lunch at
their old favorite, the Rathskellar,
and spent time checking out the
sights on Franklin Street. Classmate
Faye Webster McNaull hosted
the group and Dean Cronenwett
later that evening for dinner and
fellowship.
The BSN Class of ’73 enjoyed
Friday dinner and a visit with the
Dean at the home of Nancy Barrett
Freeman in Durham.
The BSN Class of ’83 came
together for a cocktail party hosted
by alum Jean Hix McDonald at the
Chapel Hill Country Club, and ’93
BSN classmates celebrated their
ten-year reunion at the Sheraton
Hotel. Tonya Rutherford-Hemming,
BJ Simpson and Jennifer Wilkins
planned the event.
This alumni weekend marked
the first “Late Night with Roy
Williams,” which also took place on
Friday night. Alums and their fami-lies
headed to the Smith Center to
check out the team and get ready
for the upcoming basketball season.
A Carolina blue sky welcomed
SON alums as they arrived at
Carrington Hall for the School’s
Alumni Day celebration on
Saturday, October 18. Members of
the BSN Class of ’59 greeted each
other as they came together for their
45th reunion. Over 140 alumni
from many different graduating
years enjoyed a morning of
activities at their alma mater.
Participants were able to see the
“Stan the Man,” the School’s
human patient simulator, and tour
the Biobehavioral Laboratory to
learn more about the faculty’s
ongoing sleep studies.
Event attendees also got a
firsthand view of the new building
construction and enjoyed a fun
lunch of Carolina barbeque on the
adjacent Mitchell Hall lawn.
Highlights of the day were the
presentations of the alumni of the
year awards and a class gift to the
building fund. Award recipient Anne
Whittington (BSN ’83) entertained
the group by sharing the life lessons
she has learned from her seeing eye
dog, Karl, and the BSN Class of ’93
proudly presented a check to Dean
Cronenwett to help the School meet
its building fund goal.
The Tar Heel football team lost a
heartbreaker game to Arizona State,
but this couldn’t dampen the festive
spirit gained from reminiscing
about student experiences and
celebrating the continued success of
the School.
Alumni Weekend 2003
Alumni Weekend brought
many generations of
alums back to Chapel Hill
to celebrate and reconnect
with classmates.
Connie Barden, BSN ’75
Connie Barden, MSN, RN,
is co-recipient of the 2003
Alumna of the Year Award.
She currently works as a car-diovascular
clinical specialist
at Mercy Hospital in Miami,
Florida. Previously, Barden
worked as a clinical specialist
at South Miami Hospital and
at Mt. Sinai Medical Center
before joining Mercy in
1999. In addition to working
at the hospital, Barden is an
adjunct assistant professor
at the University of Miami
School of Nursing.
Barden received her
bachelor’s degree in nursing
from UNC-Chapel Hill in
1975 before attending the
University of Alabama to
earn her master’s degree
in nursing in 1982. She
also is certified as a critical
care nurse and a clinical
specialist.
Barden is an active member
of the Miami chapter of the
American Association of
Critical Care Nurses, a group
dedicated to providing
quality resources to nurses
to improve the health care
of critically ill patients and
their families. She has pub-lished
several articles and
lectured at length on topics
related to her specialty. In
addition to local association
roles, she is a past member
of the AACN National Board
of Directors and is the
immediate past president
of AACN.
2003 Alumna
of the Year
SPRING 2004 17
Anne Whittington,
BSN ’83
Anne Whittington, MBA,
MSN, RN, also received
the 2003 Alumna of the
Year award. In 2002,
Whittington became the
treasurer of the American
Association of Diabetes
Educators. She took on this
role in addition to her job
as a diabetes program man-ager
at the Naval Medical
Center in San Diego.
She previously served as the
outreach coordinator for
diabetes education with
the State of Georgia before
moving to San Diego.
Whittington received her
bachelor’s degree in nursing
from UNC-Chapel Hill in
1983. She went on to earn
her master’s degree from
the Medical College of
Georgia before obtaining
the Master of Business
Administration from Brenau
University in Gainesville,
Georgia.
Whittington served as
president of the Greater
Augusta Diabetes Educators
while living in Georgia and
is now an active member in
the San Diego chapter of
the American Association
of Diabetes Educators. She
has been a member on the
AADE Board of Directors
since 1999 and served as a
reviewer for the associa-tion’s
A Core Curriculum for
Diabetes Education (fourth
edition), which is consid-ered
the ultimate source
for diabetes educators
2003 Alumna
of the Year
18 CAROLINA NURSING
NOTEWORTHY NURSES
Dr. Carol Z. Garrison was named
the sixth president of The University
of Alabama at Birmingham in July
2002. She had
been interim
president of the
University of
Louisville since
June 2002 and
provost there since
1997, functioning
as both the chief
academic officer
and chief operat-ing
officer. As
provost, she had oversight for a
growing medical center and helped
create an undergraduate research
initiative and expand the honors
program.
Garrison, who earned the
Bachelor of Science in nursing from
UNC’s School of Nursing in 1974, is
a native of Montclair, New Jersey.
“The baccalaureate program at
the UNC School of Nursing prepared
me extraordinarily well,” she says.
“As a nurse, I received a broad
based biomedical education, but
also learned principles of teaching,
learning, communication, counsel-ing,
problem solving, leadership,
and management, just to name
a few areas. I know of no other
discipline where the education is as
comprehensive. As an undergradu-ate
I was exposed to high standards
and expectations. By example I was
shown that the sky was the limit
and that people mattered. These are
values that I have carried with me
throughout my professional career.
I am extremely proud to be an
alumna of the School of Nursing at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.”
Garrison earned her master’s
degree from the School of Nursing
at UAB in 1976 along with a
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Certificate from UAB in 1978. In
addition to her skills as an adminis-trator,
Garrison is a researcher and
educator. Over the past 17 years, she
has been awarded more than $5.9
million in federal research funding.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Delta Omega and Sigma Xi.
Upon her departure from the
University of Louisville, Dr. Garrison
was recognized by the chair of the
Board of Trustees for her leadership,
vision, energy and passion for
undergraduate education and a
strong commitment to opportunity
and access. She was acknowledged
for her integrity and honesty in all
her interactions at the University
and as an example for others to
emulate.
Prior to her Louisville post,
Garrison was associate provost and
dean of the graduate school at the
University of South Carolina from
1994 to 1997. She joined the faculty
at South Carolina in 1982, was
named professor and chair of
epidemiology and biostatistics in
1992, and was honored twice as a
Carolina Distinguished Professor.
Her first appointment was at the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham where she was
assistant professor in nursing from
1976 to 1978.
Garrison
Noteworthy Nurses
Dr. Carol Z. Garrison, BSN ’74
BY NORMA HAWTHORNE
“The baccalaureate program at the UNC School of Nursing prepared
me extraordinarily well. As a nurse, I received a broad based
biomedical education, but also learned principles of teaching,
learning, communication, counseling, problem solving, leadership,
and management, just to name a few areas. I know of no other
discipline where the education is as comprehensive.” DR. CAROL Z. GARRISON
PHOTO BY STEVE WOOD, UAB
SPRING 2004 19
Connie Parker has spent most of
her post-graduate school life in the
Wilmington, North Carolina area,
serving as a nurse and community
leader on a volunteer basis. Several
years ago she, along with other com-munity
leaders, began to see the need
for specialized health care for the teen
population. As she noted from having
teens of her own, this age group has
special needs but is often neglected.
“We always assume that teens are
healthy, and they certainly aren’t the
most communicative group,” says
Parker. “Teens don’t feel comfortable
going to a pediatrician after a certain
age, and there is a perception that
they aren’t old enough for adult
health-care providers.” Thus WHAT,
or Wilmington Health Access for
Teens, was created.
When Wilmington’s development
began to take off in the late 1980s
and early 1990s, Parker’s group
worked to make teen health care a
priority for their growing city. In addi-tion
to population growth within
Wilmington, the city is the urban
heart of many surrounding rural
counties and the care provided there
often extends beyond town bound-aries.
Parker and a local committee
began planning WHAT in 1992. The
center is now in its own facility where
the physical and mental health issues
of teens are treated. Local school-based
offices of the program are also
in place. WHAT primarily serves teens
with financial needs, but those with
insurance often request care, too,
because the organization is so well
targeted to its customers.
Customer involvement has been
key since the organization’s begin-ning.
The organization’s board of
directors began by involving local
teens in the planning phase and con-tinues
to work with a teen advisory
board. Because of this involvement,
WHAT has continued to grow and
expand its services. The organization
now sponsors programs on pregnancy
prevention and smoking cessation
and trains a group of peer health
educators.
According to Parker, the success of
the effort has been the true partner-ship
among many local organiza-tions.
The area hospital, schools and
foundations all pulled together to
support and develop the initiative.
Parker has been the one to centralize
the efforts of the organization, help-ing
organize its lead-ership
and securing
much of its original
funding through
grants. She now serves
as executive director
and is responsible for
the overall manage-ment
of WHAT.
Parker received
the Wilmington
Civitan Club Citizen
of the Year Award and the distin-guished
Razor Walker Award from
UNC-Wilmington, which recognizes
individuals who have made extraordi-nary
contributions to the lives of
children and youth in North
Carolina. She credits many of her
skills to her undergraduate education.
“I think the Carolina nursing
education experience teaches wonder-ful
skills in communication and
dealing with people,” she explains.
“It also gives students a sensitivity
and awareness which enables them to
listen and pick up on unmet needs.”
Connie Parker, BSN ’65
BY ANNE WEBB
“I think the Carolina nursing education experience teaches
wonderful skills in communication and dealing with people. It
also gives students a sensitivity and awareness which enables
them to listen and pick up on unmet needs.” CONNIE PARKER
Parker
20 CAROLINA NURSING
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
With a little more than a year to
go before the new building is dedi-cated
in spring 2005, alumni and
friends gathered this past May at the
home of Carolyn Underwood (BSN
’79) and Dr. Bob Blum in Cary to
mark the countdown to completion.
Dean Linda Cronenwett updated
the group on construction progress
and how the new building will help
faculty and students to better teach
and learn in a state-of-the-art facili-ty.
With state support diminishing
and the demand to educate more
nurses in an era of critical shortages
increasing, the support of alumni
and friends is vital in order to build
this new building addition, she
explained. The addition will serve
as the school’s foundation for the
future by doubling existing space in
which to teach and perform
research. The benefits to North
Carolinians will be immense: in this
new building faculty will teach using
the most technologically advanced
scientific tools and conduct vital
research that promises to mitigate
the most critical health-care issues.
Dean Cronenwett pointed with
pride to the numerous teaching
awards the faculty have garnered
and the fact that the SON was
ranked fourth nationally among
nursing schools in funding from the
National Institutes of Health this
year. The $7.5 million in research
funding from NIH will further
support faculty and students as they
discover ways to help patients and
families prevent and manage illness.
As the guests celebrated, they
also discussed ways to help the
School raise the additional $2 mil-lion
needed to complete the building
before it is dedicated. The School
and Foundation Board have raised
half of the $4 million in private
funds needed to complete construc-tion,
yet this success is also a
reminder that there is more to do
before the goal is met.
Among those participating in the
evening’s festivities were Foundation
Board president Margaret Raynor,
BSN ’67, and Dr. Bobby Raynor;
Patty Maynard Hill, BSN ’69, and
Dr. Gary Hill; Dr. Franklin Clark, III,
and Theresa Clark; Helen Umphlet
and her niece, Angela Hall; Evelyn
Farmer Alexander, BSN ’56, and Ben
Alexander; Jane Snyder Norris, BSN
’56, and Tom Norris; Martha Yount
Cline, BSN ’55, and her daughter
and son-in-law, Dara and James
Linn; Geri Laport, BSN ’55, and
Robert Laport; Pam Jameson, BSN
’76, and her niece, Caroline
Edwards; Alumni Association presi-dent
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming,
BSN ’93, MSN ’01, and Holly
Ingram; SON emeriti faculty mem-bers
Laurice Ferris and Barbara
Rynerson; director of continuing
education Dr. Barbara Jo Foley,
BSN ’67, and Joe Foley; and SON
professor Dr. Molly Dougherty.
Countdown to Completion:
Alumni and Friends Celebrate
A perfect night! Carolyn
Underwood (BSN ’79)
and Bob Blum hosted a
gala tribute to the new
building at their Cary
home in May 2003 to
honor building donors
and focus attention on
the need for funding
to complete the
construction.
Margaret Raynor,
SON Foundation
Board president,
and Dr. Barbara Jo
Foley, SON clinical
associate profes-sor,
Class of ’67
classmates
Martha Yount Cline, BSN ’55, and
Dean Cronenwett
Helen Umphlet and Angela Hall
SPRING 2004 21
THE NEW BUILDING
Markers and
Milestones:
A Foundation
for the Future
$4 million in private funds
must augment state invest-ment
of $10.1 million
$2 million in pledges & gifts
received for building as of
11/1/03
$2 million additional needed
by spring 2005 building
dedication
All building gifts and pledges
requested by December 31,
2004
Spring 2005 commemorative
dedication book will honor all
building donors; make your
gift or pledge before
December 31, 2004 to be
included!
Carolina First
Campaign Update
Total $15 million goal for the
School of Nursing (includes
$4 million for new building)
52% raised to date (as of
January 2004)
56% of the campaign is over
(campaign ends June 30,
2007)
$7.8 million raised (as of
January 2004)
What Counts?
• Bequests
• Trusts
• Cash Gifts
• Real Estate
• Pledges
• Much more
To make your gift or pledge,
contact Norma Hawthorne
at (919) 966-4619 or
norma_hawthorne@unc.edu.
It is astounding what the Class of
2003 has accomplished and it repre-sents
a FIRST for the SON. The
$10,300 scholarship they presented
to the School at their May gradua-tion
is the largest gift to be given by
a SON graduating class. Why and
how did they accomplish this feat?
“We had such incredible experi-ences
during our junior and senior
years at the nursing school,” says
Laura Correll, senior class board
president. “We learned so much, and
we became very close friends. Our
faculty were supportive and helped
us through the trials of classroom
study and clinicals. The Senior Class
Board decided that the best way we
could give back was to provide a
scholarship fund that would be a
lasting tribute to the school and help
nursing students who come after us.
It’s something we can continue to
contribute to as we establish our
careers.”
The class raised funds all year
right up until graduation day! They
held bake sales, car washes, Krispy
Kreme and bagel breaks, and sought
support from family members and
faculty and staff in the School.
Class of 2003 Makes a Record Gift
When you make a gift to the
building fund that is part of a Class
Gift Campaign, it can count twice!
For example, if you want to make a
gift of $25,000 to name the East
Lobby and Reception Area on the
First Floor of the new building, a
plaque will designate this as your
individual gift. And, if your class is
organizing a Class Gift Campaign,
this $25,000 gift will also count to
name a space in honor of your class.
For example, if your class collective-ly
raises $200,000 representing
gifts from many classmates, the
Continuing Education Suite in the
new building can be designated with
a plaque: A Gift from the Class of
XXXX. Contact Norma Hawthorne or
Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 if you
are interested in making a class gift
or organizing one.
Class Gifts
Leverage Your
Investment
in the Future
The BSN Class of 2003 gave the SON’s largest graduating class gift at their May commencement ceremony.
The BSN Class of 1993 pre-sented
their class gift during
Alumni Day 2003.
PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
PHOTO COURTESY OF TONYA RUTHERFORD-HEMMING
SPRING 2004 23
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
The Honor Roll of Giving
A Big Thank You!
Our alumni and friends keep the pulse of the School of Nursing healthy and strong. A very special
thanks to each of you listed on this Honor Roll of Giving for your generosity and thoughtfulness. Your
private gifts enable us to provide student scholarships and other forms of academic support, as well as
stipends to assist teaching and research faculty. Over 50% of the School’s budget comes from private gifts
and grants — we can’t do what we do without you!
These days, our new building addition is at the top of our minds. Amid the sound of jackhammers and
cranes, we look to the day when its completion will allow us to increase enrollments and accept more of
the qualified students who apply each year as we work diligently to better address the nursing shortage.
The added space will give young men and women access to state-of-the-art clinical skills labs where they
will learn and practice the science and art of nursing. Here, our nationally recognized faculty will men-tor
our future caregivers, teachers and researchers.
To do all we can for them, we must support them with a sturdy foundation. All else derives from this.
Over 60% of the gifts made to the School last year were designated to the building fund. The names on
the following pages have enabled us to make substantial progress. So far, you have provided $2 million
of the $4 million in private funds required to construct the new addition. Another $2 million is still
needed to meet our obligations before the new building is dedicated in spring 2005.
When you consider how your SON education influenced your life, please consider giving back by making
a five-year pledge to the building. If you’ve already done so, perhaps you would consider doing a little
more either individually or through a class gift.
You have our gratitude for making the future possible and sustaining us today.
Norma Hawthorne
Director of Advancement
Executive Director, SON Foundation, Inc.
P.S. Request a copy of A Foundation for the Future, a tribute to the new building
construction and the people who are making it possible. Call (919) 966-4619 or e-mail me at
Norma_Hawthorne@unc.edu.
*The list recognizes gifts received in fiscal year July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003. We value each donor and do our best
to ensure that each person is correctly noted on the following pages. If you notice that your name was misspelled or
omitted, please contact Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 or Anne_Webb@unc.edu.
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
CARRINGTON SOCIETY
$1,000 or more
Evelyn Farmer Alexander
Kenneth F Anderson Jr
Donna Blair Booe
Mary Lou Norwood Booth
Linda Santorum Byers
Franklin St Clair Clark, III
Martha Yount Cline
Laurel Archer Copp
Winnie Williams Cotton
Linda R Cronenwett
Denise Taylor Darden
Bette Leon Davis
Walter Royal Davis
Molly Dougherty
Margery Duffey
Laurice Ferris
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Lucy Taylor Fort
Frances Hill Fox
J Thomas Fox Jr
Landon Lewis Fox
Cynthia Mary Freund
J Frank Gilreath
John Christopher Glantz
Sandra Hines Glantz
Carolyn Jane Graham
Maryann Patterson Ingersoll
Patsy Colvard Johnson
Geraldine Snider Laport
Robert Edmund Laport
James Alonza Leggette Jr
Mary Anderson Leggette
Janet Merritt Littlejohn
William Littlejohn
Carolyn White London
Barbara Williams Madden
Margaret S Miles
W Paul Monroe
Jane Sox Monroe
Jane Snyder Norris
Thomas Lloyd Norris Jr
Constance Newnam Parker
Hilda Hine Patterson
John Smith Patterson
Evelyn Rose Paul
Constance Hathaway Pendergrass
Kenneth Hardy Rabin
Mary Coleman Rose
Barbara C Rynerson
Blaine C Short
Susan W Short
Janet Askew Sipple
Susan Willey Spalt
Ed Starnes Jr
Ramelle Hylton Starnes
Louise Norwood Thomas
Carolyn Sue Underwood
Cynthia Perry Waddell
P Kay Wagoner
Bailey D Webb
Jo Lentz Williams
Geneva File Williams
Ashley Lefler Wilson
John Bernhardt Wilson Jr
Elizabeth Knowles Woodard
BSN Class of 2003
Burlington Industries Foundation
Carl S Swisher Foundation, Inc
Golden LEAF, Inc
Novant Health, Inc
Thomas Henry Wilson & Family
Foundation
Waddell Foundation
DEAN'S CLUB
$500–$999
Audrey Joyce Booth
Donna Davis Bost
Linda Carol Bryant
Joy Smith Burton
Harriet Walker Buss
Gwenlyn Huss Butler
Emily Greer Cawood
Beth Herring Chadwick
JoAnn B Dalton
Jack Delbridge Dunn
Mary Howard Dunn
Cheryl Lynn Elliott
Roberta Brown Feather
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Sara Blaylock Flynn
Kathleen Walsh Free
Nancy Scott Fuller
W Erwin Fuller Jr
Sandra Gail Funk
Barbara B Germino
Nancy Walters Harman
Rizza Duterte Hermosisima
Betty H Landsberger
Jean Marie Raue Larson
Jane Mayes Link
Kristina Ramthun MacPherson
Brenda Jarrett Matthews
Jean Hix McDonald
Sandra Roberts Montgomery
Marjorie Staub Mosher
Virginia J Neelon
Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Gloria Huss Peele
Ona Mercer Pickens
Rebecca Greene Pitts
Colleen Cullen Powers
Richard W Redman
Nancy Brand Saulino
Barbara Hedberg Self
Ronald Keith Shank
Sonda Hawley Shank
Anne H Skelly
Stacey Nicole Sondecker
Margaret Weidel Sprott
Patsy Schupper Theobald
Sara Anderson Thompson
Helen W Umphlet
David Russell Ward
Martha Lentz Waters
Ann M Williamson
Rex Healthcare
Univ Health Systems of Eastern
Carolina
BENEFACTORS
$250–$499
Anne Elizabeth Belcher
Paula Kirby Benway
Shelley Kincaid Bunting
Sarah Smith Carey
Marsha S Correll
Beverly Desmond Davis
Elizabeth Maynard Doles
Mary C Dowe
Emily Scovil Eklund
Judith Rogers Gibson
Martha Zink Gibson
Susan Stuart Harvey
Bonnie Keaton Hensley
Bennett Houston
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Margaret Karen Landreth
Margaret Riggan Light
Diane Ely Littlefield
Sophia P Livas
Jann Budde Logsdon
Elizabeth Hilton Long
Alene M Mercer
Kathryn Suzanne Miller
Linda Moon Miller
Lori Ann Nash
Audrey Elaine Nelson
Carolyn Buck Pearson
Susan Foley Pierce
Ann Bennett Propert
Elizabeth Moate Robinson
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Sheila Judge Santacroce
Jennifer Carr Savitz
Diane Marie Schadewald
Diane Fites Schifter
Deane E Schweinsberg
Courtney Wells Sewell
Lindsay Fodrie Sewell
Elizabeth Pugh Summey
Carol Rhodes Warden
Rebecca Story Wilson
George I Woodall Jr
Speight, Mary P (Estate of)
PATRONS
$100–$249
Margaret Evans Adams
Carol Ann Consolvo Adcock
Pamela Wells Akhter
Lisa Mock Allen
Karla Susan Alwood
Leigh Sharp Ammons
Linda Holt Anderson
Laurie G Armstrong
Elena Codispoti Aseltine
Natalie Salter Baggett
Sally Smith Baldwin
Deborah Brown Ballard
Patricia Rouisse Ballentine
Virginia Alexander Barnes
Ruby Gilbert Barnes
Paula Ridenhour Barringer
Deborah Dewees Baughn
Kathleen Murphy Baum
Annette Beam
Judith Reavis Beauchamp
Carolyn Veronica Billings
Mary Neilson Bishop
Brian Dean Bombardier
Elaine Gettman Bourdeaux
Susan Shay Brack
Jane Helen Brice
E C Bryson Jr
Katharine Pickrell Bryson
Jennifer Kathryne Bromberg
Rushani Sie Brooks
Blaine York Brower
Fay Linette Brown
Susan H Brunssen
Lillian Ward Bryant
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Melanie Gayle Bunn
Margaret Gorely Bye
Marian White Byerly
Shirley Hamrick Byrd
Kathi Roberts Byrne
Lisa Barnette Callanan
Daria L Campbell
Margaret Lynn Campbell
Elizabeth Scovil Carlo
Kimberly Elizabeth Carr
Constance Lee Carroll
Robert Dorian Casey
Nancy Gibbes Chapman
John T Childers
Rene Clark
Ashley Lewis Clark
Cynthia deRoulhac Clark
Jane Huber Clark
Virginie Blackwell Cloutier
Anne Smith Cole
Karen Hopkins Coley-Harrison
Bonnie Blue Colhoun
Virginia Van Velsor Connett
Tony Dean Cook
Allene Fuller Cooley
M Carolyn Cooper
Lisa Ann Corn
Emily Betts Cox
Janet Wolfe Craft
Lee McCarter Cranford
Mary Redfearn Creed
Robert Walter Creed
Gary Douglas Crotty
Janet Peele Crumpler
Ann Davisson
Claudia Barnes Deese
Kay R Demyan
Mollie Hood DeWalt
Cornelia Beck Dewees
Johanna Ruth Dewees
Nancy Johnson Dewhirst
Nancy Robison Dickinson
Judith Wilson DiCostanzo
Susan Adams Doughton
Veronica Strasser Douglas
Kevin Robert Dungey
Martha Robbins Sadler Dungey
Julia Stout Dyer
Cynthia Lee Earthman
Ruth Kaemmerlen Efird
Dorothy Mosley Ellmore
Beverly Tedder Essick
Patsy Ruth Farlow
Shotsy Charlotte Faust
Barbara Caldwell Fletcher
Cristin Council Flynt
Beverly Brown Foster
Peggy Carden Frankenstein
Mary Bowsher Friedman
Matthew Roy Friedman
Laureen Sue Froimson
Jane A Frye
Monica Witterholt Fuller
Jane King Fulton
John E Furnas
Teresa Denise Gainer
Carol Zimmerman Garrison
Sara Elizabeth Garvin
Lora Barnhardt Gensheimer
Sharon Speer Gentry
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Marsha Newton Golombik
Patricia Beatty Goodwin
Marcia Somers Gore
Elizabeth Binder Gray
Elizabeth Dianne Greenhill
Elizabeth Lusk Gregg
Mary Layne Shine Gregg
Olivia Womble Griffin
Jocelyn Stebbins Guice
Linda Joyce Cade Haber
Betty Jean Haddock
Mary Harrison Hall
Judith Hallock
Cathy McGonigle Hamill
Joanne Summey Harrell
Jacqueline Haugh Harris
Pamela Reeder Harsant
Norma Hawthorne
Patricia Dodson Hayes
Martha Ann Haywood
Jan Moses Hedgepeth
Peggy Needham Heinsohn
Jessie Carraway Heizer
Kerry Allen Hensley
Christine Aufricht Heyse
James Rodney Hicks
Leslie Carolyn Hicks
Carol Leigh Hile
Jo Ann Zaron Hiti
Anita Whitener Hoffler
Janice Joyce Hoffman
Dene Raisner Hogge
Carolyn Mayo Holloway
Hilda Cates Holloway
John Rufus Holt
John W Holt
Mary Edel Holtschneider
Charlene Honeycutt
Cheryl Vaughn Howe
Nancy Wills Hudock
Patricia Whitley Hudson
Gail G Hudson
Jolynn Edwards Hurwitz
Marilyn Beaver Hutcheson
Judith Hartsfield Iannuzzi
Carolyn Morgan Inman
Elaine Merchant Jeffcoat
Lyn Mathis Jenkins
Ann Linville Jessup
Anne Glenn Johnson
David Franklin Johnson
Beverly Smith Johnson
Miriam Perrou Jolly
Francis G Jonas
Christine Earle Jones
Jane Carey Karpick
Jane S Kaufman
Nancy Lou Keaton
Sherry Jean Kelly
Patricia Ann Hunter Key
Mary Haxton Kinard
Debra Gay Kiser
Judy Heller Knauer
Virginia Turner Kramer
Kendra Argo Kruse
Nita Laca
Myra Dennis Landmesser
Judith Davis Lang
Benjamin James Lee
Colleen Hamilton Lee
Barbara Dunn Legler
Dianne Hall Leloudis
Michele Foster Lewis
Elizabeth Beattie Lewis
Lynn E Locher
Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
Patricia Barlow Lowery
Pamela Kay Lowrance
Mary R Lynn
Bennie Jo Riley MacCaughelty
Susan Elaine Marshall
Jo-Anne Trowbridge Martin
John Angelo Martino
Elaine Crosbie Matheson
Beth Hewlett Mathews
Vandy Bass Matthews
Karen Magnuson Mauro
Sandra Thompson McCormick
Karen Lee McDonald
Why I Give
Rizza Hermosisima,
BSN ’86
You can't graduate from
Carolina’s School of
Nursing and not think
about it again. It makes
that much of an impact
on your life. I was first
approached about giving
back from a classmate
who encouraged me to
join her in supporting
the School of Nursing.
We now look for other
classmates’ names in
the annual Honor Roll
of Giving and try to
promote participation.
Our class has achieved
so many successes in the
field and we realize that
it all began with our
nursing education. The
School of Nursing gave
us the skills and confi-dence
we needed to
succeed, and we should
help others receive the
same opportunity for an
excellent education.
The SON was there for
us when we needed it,
and now it is time for
us to be there for the
School when it needs
our support.
PHOTO BY ANNE WEBB
Linda MacMorran McElveen
Gale Kircus McKee
Ann Maxwell McPhaul
Janet Opp McPherson
Diane Clark Meador
Janet Cheyfitz Meckler
Wendy Leigh Meyers
Mary McConville Mogan
Jane Kelly Monroe
Katherine Anne Moore
Linda Doub Morgan
Tina Marie Morris
Ilene Allen Morrison
Scarlott Kimball Mueller
Monica Miller Muldoon
Anne Lowe Murphy
Sara Burt Mursch
Betty Lee Snyder Mustafa
Sherrie Page Najarian
Brenda Marion Nevidjon
Delia Ruth Nickolaus
Alan Ray Novotny
Cynthia Johnson Oakes
Wanda Shelton Oakley
Willis Lathrop O'Brien
Susan Gatlin O'Dell
Brenda Joyce Olinger
Rebecca Dewees Olson
Sonda M Oppewal
Nancy Kiley Overstreet
Michele Morton Page
Mary H Palmer
Elizabeth Buchanan Paramore
Anne Whitaker Peedin
Kelly Rene Peek
Arlene Maher Pennella
Elizabeth Cox Perry
Mary Ann Rohrhurst Peter
Julius Caesar Phillips Jr
Linda Garner Phillips
Faye Dark Pickard
Laura Carlo Piver
Linda Grissom Polacheck
Ann Marie Polk
Patricia Heilig Poret
Gaye Williard Poteet
Georgia Marshall Pruitt
George I Rand
Ann Page Ransdell
Nancy Charles Rawl
James Thomas Raynor
Amanda Sue Rebbert
Sandra Darling Reed
Linda Trembath Reeder
Linda Fox Reeves
Susan Forney Reichman
Kelly Leigh Revels
Ronald Stephen Riggle
Patricia Cox Rogers
Leota Lovina Rolls
Shirley Spaugh Rosen
Douglas Mark Ross
Robyn Firestone Ross
Ann Elgin Van Meter Rudeen
Elizabeth Taylor Russell
R James Rutherford Jr
Judith Claire Rybka
Margarete Sandelowski
Stephen Terry Savitz
Ruth Graves Schwab
Mary Roberts Shapiro
Faith Junghahn Shaw
Susan Gale Sherman
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Lisa Higgins Shugoll
Bobbie Jo Lee Simpson
David John Smith
Nancy Noble Smith
Stephen Michael Smith
Mabeth Vanessa Smith
Karen Kellogg Soderstrom
Mary Victorine Spainhour
Carolyn Cook Spalding
Jennifer Dugan Spry
Phyllis Stadler-Lacki
Rachel Humphries Stevens
Jane Johnson Stine
Andrea Franks Strauss
Irene Powell Strickland
Catherine Neal Sugg
J Brinkley Sugg
Richard Anderson Sutton
Dana Snipes Svendsen
Thor Owen Svendsen
Sally Mozelle Taylor
Bobby Gene Taylor
Julie Smith Taylor
Esther Mae Tesh
Stephanie Roach Thacker
Deborah Thompson
Mary Jean Thorson
Arlene M Thurstone
Jane Brezinski Tomasi
Cynthia Calderwood Tomlin
Marshall Lee Turner Jr
Nancy Beasley Turner
Mary Vallier-Kaplan
Judith Flanders Vollmer
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
Deborah Kerens Wagner
Lois McCauley Wagner
Christine Mencini Waldrip
Linda Sitton Washburn
Carol Lynne Watters
Eugenia Hruslinski Weeks
Joanne Hogg Welborne
Susan Tant Whitaker
Marjene DeBardelaben White
Edward R Whitehurst Jr
Elaine Morrison Whitehurst
Donna Mease Wiggins
Jacqueline Lancaster Williams
Kathryn Prescott Williams
Marguerite Cosgrove Williams
Carol Cobb Williams
Kristie Lee Willis
Carole Norman Willmot
Sarah Simpson Wilson
Kimberly Collins Woodard
Glenda Sue Wooten
Carolyn Roberts Wright
Sarah Li-Wen Wu
Joyce McKeon Wynia
Marlene Stone Yates
Mabel Broadwell Yelvington
Aufricht Foundation
East Tennessee Anesthesia, Inc
FRIENDS
Louis Paul Abraham
Carol Ann Consolvo Adcock
Kenneth F Anderson Jr
Charles Leander Andrews Jr
Virginia Boardman
Anna Maxey Boelt
Claribel R Bouvier
Norman Brenneman
Jane Helen Brice
E C Bryson Jr
Mark Buckley
David Sewanee Bull
Rosemarie Bundy
F W Burks
Richard Earl Caddy Jr
Jamie Stephen Carrick
Robert Dorian Casey
Emily Greer Cawood
Allison Inscoe Chandler
Nancy Williams Cheek
Neal King Cheek
John T Childers
Franklin St Clair Clark, III
Tommy Wade Clayton
Anne Clemmer
Elizabeth B Cloutier
Gilles Cloutier
Larry B Cole
Bonnie Blue Colhoun
Mary C Cooper
Laurel Archer Copp
Victor Owen Cordle
Marsha S Correll
Graham Harvey Cosper
Robin Carol Crabtree
James Randolph Creech
Robert Walter Creed
James Charles Daugherty
Larry Steve Davidson
Robert Davis
Walter Royal Davis
Thomas Leroy Dawson
Locke DeBruyne
Kay R Demyan
Mollie Hood DeWalt
Caroline Hume Dilweg
Joseph Earl Dixon
Mildred H Dodge
Thorogood Melson Doughty Jr
Mary C Dowe
Margery Duffey
Kevin Robert Dungey
Jack Delbridge Dunn
Sandra Kathleen Evans
Sandra Hudson Felix
Rose Emmylou Ferris
Laurice Ferris
James Eugene Fogartie Jr
Joan Van Dyke Fouts
Frances Hill Fox
J Thomas Fox Jr
Elman Grady Frantz
Kathleen Walsh Free
Homa Jackson Freeman Jr
Matthew Roy Friedman
Nancy Scott Fuller
Monica Witterholt Fuller
W Erwin Fuller Jr
John E Furnas
Ann C Galiger
J Frank Gilreath
Sue Gainey Giles
Terry Scott Giles
John Christopher Glantz
David Martin Gorgonzola
Beverly Allen Greene
Elizabeth Dianne Greenhill
Robert Gerard Griffin
Jocelyn Stebbins Guice
Maria S Hailey
Erika Milnor Hale
Jeffrey Wayne Henson
Lois T Herring
James Rodney Hicks
G Melvin Hipps Sr
John Rufus Holt
Larry Honbarrier
James Sidney Hunter
Wyllis Eugene James Jr
Tori Richards Johnson
David Franklin Johnson
Francis G Jonas
Ronald Darr Keiger
Daniel Douglas Kester Jr
Nita Laca
Amy W Lamm
Betty H Landsberger
Judith Davis Lang
Robert Edmund Laport
Marc Byron Laster
Nancy Raquel Lee
Benjamin James Lee
Barbara Dascombe Lee
Annmarie Meredith Lee
James Alonza Leggette Jr
Thomas Henry Lineberger
William Littlejohn
Sophia P Livas
Linda Beth Logsdon
James Monroe Long
Edward Lenoir Lowdermilk
Hallie Maiden
John Jacob Marks
John Angelo Martino
Tricia Lynn Martino
Bobby Kenneth McCullen Jr
Tamara Spence McLoughlin
Michael Henry Merritt
Polly H. Miller
Jennifer Marie Miller
Mary McConville Mogan
W Paul Monroe
Merry-K Moos
James Hunter Morgan
John Stanley Newsome
Gregory Allen Neyhart
Thomas Lloyd Norris Jr
S Dale Odom Jr
William Conally Owen
Michele Morton Page
Hilda Hine Patterson
John Smith Patterson
Patricia E Pawlik
Tommy Clayton Peele
E Magnus Persmark
Mary Ann Rohrhurst Peter
Julius Caesar Phillips Jr
Philip Wade Ponder
J Craig Quick
Kenneth Hardy Rabin
James Thomas Raynor
John Joseph Reardon
T Justin Renegar
Kelly Leigh Revels
R Timothy Rice
Lou Etta K Roberts
D Thomas Roberts Jr
C Edward Robinson
Judy Livingstone Robinson
Mark Graham Rodin
Douglas Mark Ross
R James Rutherford Jr
Barbara C Rynerson
Todd Rutledge Sander
Stephen Terry Savitz
Courtney Wells Sewell
Lindsay Fodrie Sewell
Shannon Collins Seymour
Sonda Hawley Shank
Deirdre A Shoffner
Blaine C Short
Mark Smith
Gloria Faison Smith
David John Smith
Stephen Michael Smith
Mark Kelly Smotherman
Helen Easter Snow
Ellen Joan Solomon
Kelly Oliver Spann
Stanley M Spinola
Thomas Patrick Stephenson
Ed Starnes Jr
Alan Stowe
Nancy R Strickland
Catherine Neal Sugg
Thor Owen Svendsen
Kim Webb Talbert
Bobby Gene Taylor
Hunter Marshall Teske
Patrick E Tiernan
Arrel D Toews
Mark Tommerdahl
Marshall Lee Turner Jr
Helen W Umphlet
Douglas Paul Utter
Charles Mahlon Vollmer
Carol Ward
David Russell Ward
Martha Szegda Ward
Edgar Davis Warren
Bailey D Webb
Edward R Whitehurst Jr
Marian Davis Whiteside
Gerald A Williams
John Bernhardt Wilson Jr
Robert Gale Wilson Jr
Amy Ervin Winecoff
William Francis Wolcott III
George I Woodall Jr
Mark Edward Woodruff
Joyce C Young
Burlington Industries Foundation
Waddell Foundation
Rex Healthcare
Estate of Mary P Speight
Carl S Swisher Foundation, Inc
Novant Health, Inc
Thomas Henry Wilson & Family
Foundation
Diocese of East Carolina Bishop’s Disc
East Tennessee Anesthesia, Inc
Alpha Alpha Chapter Sigma Theta
Tau, Inc
Aufricht Foundation
NC Housing Finance Agency Fund
Univ Health Systems of Eastern
Carolina
Golden LEAF, Inc
FACULTY AND STAFF
Bonnie Ford Angel
Janet H Blue
Susan H Brunssen
M Carolyn Cooper
Linda R Cronenwett
JoAnn B Dalton
Gayle Tart Davis
Leslie Louise Davis
Janna L Dieckmann
Molly Dougherty
Beverly Ferreiro
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Beverly Brown Foster
Sandra Gail Funk
Barbara B Germino
Joanne Summey Harrell
Why I Give
Jo-Anne Trowbridge
Martin, BSN ’69
It has been said, “Give
and you shall receive.”
The UNC School of
Nursing provided the
framework and founda-tion
for me to become a
professional caregiver,
empowering me to
achieve my career
goals as a US Navy
nurse as well as to
develop the confidence
to meet many other life
challenges. Through
supporting the School
of Nursing, the joy of
seeing the enthusiastic
young men and women
pursue their nursing
careers is the best of
all “thank you’s.” It is
exhilarating to have the
opportunity to encour-age
and support these
students in fulfilling their
dreams through quality
nursing education.
PHOTO BY IMAGES BY DWAYNE
Norma Hawthorne
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Martha Lillian Henderson
Jane S Kaufman
Gerry King, In Memory Of
Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
Mary R Lynn
Margaret S Miles
Maggie Miller
Katherine A Moore
Virginia J Neelon
Sonda M Oppewal
Mary H Palmer
Susan Foley Pierce
Richard W Redman
Margarete Sandelowski
Susan W Short
Anne H Skelly
Deborah Thompson
James Edward Vickers
Julee Briscoe Waldrop
Wanda E Wazenegger
Anne Aldridge Webb
Elizabeth K Woodard
1955
BSN
Donna Blair Booe
Joy Smith Burton
Gwenlyn Huss Butler
Martha Yount Cline
Winnie Williams Cotton
Bette Leon Davis
Sara Blaylock Flynn
Patsy Colvard Johnson
Geraldine Snider Laport
Mary Anderson Leggette
Janet Merritt Littlejohn
Sally Winn Nicholson
Gloria Huss Peele
Ramelle Hylton Starnes
Louise Norwood Thomas
Arlene M Thurstone
1956
BSN
Evelyn Farmer Alexander
Natalie Salter Baggett
Sally Smith Baldwin
Katherine Widman Carter
Lee McCarter Cranford
Elizabeth Hamilton Darden
Landon Lewis Fox
Peggy Needham Heinsohn
Jessie Carraway Heizer
Emily Robeson Hubbard
Carolyn White London
Jane Kelly Monroe
Jane Sox Monroe
Jane Snyder Norris
Billie Dobbs Rogers
Ruth Corwin Whitman
Geneva File Williams
1957
BSN
Ruth Holmes Benedict
Mary Lou Norwood Booth
Mary Ann Keeter Caston
Shirley Lee Guenthner
Anne Glenn Johnson
Martha Lentz Waters
Sara Burt Mursch
Ann Page Ransdell
Margaret Davis Reed
Barbara Hedberg Self
Rachel Humphries Stevens
MSN
Audrey Joyce Booth
1958
BSN
Cloydia Carstarphen Dixon
Lucy Taylor Fort
Geraldine Y Haynes
Gail G Hudson
Diane Roane Lasley
Marjorie Staub Mosher
Sally Price Ormand
Norma Cupp Pitzer
Nancy Charles Rawl
Billie Williams Routh
Elizabeth Sumner Sanders
Nancy Noble Smith
Mary Williams Stroupe
Kathryn Jones Walsh
Carolyn Roberts Wright
1959
BSN
Alvene Williams Buckley
Shirley Hamrick Byrd
Diane Snakenburg Gordon
Jo Ann Sowers Mason
Martha Oliver Meetre
Beverly Heaton Miller
Faye Dark Pickard
Patricia Kline Robertson
Mary Helen Shelburne Watkins
1960
BSN
Margaret Evans Adams
Harriette Zimmerman Beaven
Claudia Barnes Deese
Elizabeth Johnson Downey
Sara Elizabeth Garvin
Opal Shepard Hipps
Anita Whitener Hoffler
Catherine Carden Long
Sandra Roberts Montgomery
Jean Sutherland Pridgen
Sandra Darling Reed
Judith Jones Southerland
Roberta Chapin White
MSN
Ruby Gilbert Barnes
Barbara Williams Madden
Ruth Graves Schwab
Rachel Humphries Stevens
Jacqueline Joann Taylor
1961
BSN
E Elaine Curtis
Nancy Robison Dickinson
Carolyn Mayo Holloway
Ann Linville Jessup
Alice F Keiger
Linda Ann Lewis
Karen Magnuson Mauro
Margaret Thompson McCain
Carolyn Nifong Morgan
Keeter Baggett Pope
Alice Kent Roye
Mary Brock Slaughter
Diana Lea Sowards
Patricia Long Vaughan
Mabel Broadwell Yelvington
1962
BSN
Paula Kirby Benway
Mary Alice Blevins
Lillian Ward Bryant
Jane Huber Clark
Elsie Deana Cross
Beverly Desmond Davis
Ann Davisson
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Shirley Snyder Frantz
Undine Caudle Garner
Mary Harrison Hall
Mae Van Hiatt
Mary Boatwright Howie
Nancy Wills Hudock
Sally Horton Jones
Patricia Ann Hunter Key
Celeste Leffingwell Loftin
Elizabeth Chambers Payne
Patricia Heilig Poret
Ann Bennett Propert
Linda Trembath Reeder
Esther Mae Tesh
MSN
Martha Clyde Davis
1963
BSN
Elaine Gettman Bourdeaux
Katharine Pickrell Bryson
Roberta Brown Feather
Barbara Caldwell Fletcher
Elizabeth Lusk Gregg
Mary Shaw Hambright
Mary Pleasants Hogg
Sylvia Vincent Jackson
Carol Elledge Koontz
Lynn E Locher
Patricia Barlow Lowery
Carolyn Sue Morris
Laura Hawes Morrison
Linda Hutchins Myrick
Arlene Maher Pennella
Martha Tate Roberts
Margaret Sutton Wade
Eleanor Kay Weeks
Eugenia Hruslinski Weeks
Joanne Hogg Welborne
1964
BSN
Barbara Poag Brown
Sharon W Cervenak
Carolyn Mitchell Elgin
Frances Booth Hart
Bonnie Keaton Hensley
Patricia Whitley Hudson
Beverley Haynes Johnson
Carolyn Pugh Keil
Jean Burley Moore
Margie Mayo Oldham
Laura Carlo Piver
Gaye Williard Poteet
Mary Coleman Rose
Mary Roberts Shapiro
Lois McCauley Wagner
Linda Sitton Washburn
Betty May Swecker Yoe
MSN
Marcia Singletary Brooks
Opal Shepard Hipps
1965
BSN
Marianne Cooke Bell
Nancy Rieman Caldwell
Sharon Kennedy Casey
Karen Hopkins Coley-Harrison
Dorothy Isom Daniel
Vercie Massengill Eller
Linda Barnes Henderson
Jo Ann Zaron Hiti
Anne Alphin Hobson
Carole Ridgeway Hunter
Ann Maxwell McPhaul
Constance Newnam Parker
Barbara Easkold Pringle
Margaret Weidel Sprott
Nancy Beasley Turner
Elaine Adams Underwood
Judith Flanders Vollmer
MSN
Katherine Camilla Bobbitt
Roberta Brown Feather
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Lucy Taylor Fort
Ellen May Stout
1966
BSN
Nancy Herter Apmann
Carole O'Brient Bordelon
Elizabeth Scovil Carlo
Marie Phillips Cloney-Williams
Mary Howard Dunn
Martha Zink Gibson
Anne Barbee Houston
Jo Anne Viverette Johnson
Kay Goodman McMullan
Leith Merrow Mullaly
Anne Whitaker Peedin
Elizabeth Cox Perry
Linda Fox Reeves
Suzanne Bennett Reilly
Janice Fox Sands
Stella Gilmore Taylor
Sharon Ranson Thompson
Elaine Morrison Whitehurst
Rebecca Story Wilson
Paula Anne Yelverton
MSN
Susan Dewey Sverha
1967
BSN
Prentiss Anne Allen
Elena Codispoti Aseltine
Anne Elizabeth Belcher
Rene Clark
Nancy Rankin Crutchfield
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Mary Bowsher Friedman
Olivia Womble Griffin
Patricia Dodson Hayes
Cheryl Vaughn Howe
Patricia Humphrey-Kloes
Marilyn Beaver Hutcheson
Rebecca Dawsey Johnson
Toni Cline Kenerly
Judy Heller Knauer
Elizabeth Beattie Lewis
Carolyn Mitchell Martin
Gale Kircus McKee
Ilene Allen Morrison
Genevia Sanderson Mozolak
Carolyn Buck Pearson
Georgia Marshall Pruitt
Margaret Ferguson Raynor
Shirley Spaugh Rosen
Susan Willey Spalt
Nancy Carr Sumner
Suzanne Lewis Tonski
Carole Norman Willmot
1968
BSN
Judith Reavis Beauchamp
Lois Greenfield Boyles
Elizabeth Margaret Carr
Linda Robinson Cloninger
Carolyn Taylor Cresimore
Cornelia Beck Dewees
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Joan Byrum McCormick
Susanne Smith Newton
Julia Knott Prasse
Miriam Munden Quick
Joan Frances Reinhardt
Johana Renfro Roberts
Elizabeth Pugh Summey
Linda Hamlin Titus
Marjene DeBardelaben White
MSN
Faye Dark Pickard
1969
BSN
Beverly Neal Barnette
Sarah Smith Carey
Linda Kibler Cockrell
Gayle Tart Davis
Ruth Kaemmerlen Efird
Judith Van Dyke Egg
Dorothy Mosley Ellmore
Patsy Ruth Farlow
Judith Rogers Gibson
Marcia Somers Gore
Judith Hoskins Haupt
Susan Stallings Jones
Jane Carey Karpick
Barbara Dunn Legler
Margaret Riggan Light
Jo-Anne Trowbridge Martin
Brenda Jarrett Matthews
Rebecca Greene Pitts
Eddie Boykin Pope
Susan Forney Reichman
Judith Claire Rybka
Jennifer Carr Savitz
Nancy Nicks Stephenson
Betty Blankenship Thornton
Cynthia Calderwood Tomlin
Sally Sayre Weinrich
Donna Mease Wiggins
Carol Cobb Williams
Jo Lentz Williams
MSN
Doris Haase Dixon
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
Why I Give
John and Hilda
Patterson
We have an avid love
for Carolina and a real
desire to help nursing
students. Nursing roots
run deep in our family—
two of our daughters
are alumnae of the
School of Nursing, I am a
nurse [Hilda] and John’s
mother was a nurse.
We are proud of our
own nursing tradition
and want to share it
with others, so we feel
it is a great privilege to
assist a student who is
working to become a
nurse. Having Carolina
nurses in our family
makes it an even bigger
joy to support future
Carolina nurses and
continue the tradition
of excellence.
PHOTO COURTESY OF HILDA PATTERSON
Jane Mitchell Hayward
Leota Lovina Rolls
1970
BSN
Deborah Dewees Baughn
Annette Beam
Nancy Gibbes Chapman
Deborah Wyndham Cody
Joyce Schilke Cohen
Allene Fuller Cooley
Deborah Lawrence Delafield
Linda Page Delbridge
Lynda Law Harrison
Christine Aufricht Heyse
Kathryn Minton Holliday
Shirley Privette Hunter
Lucy Thomas Kindsvatter
Virginia Lane
Jayne Yates Lutz
Alene M Mercer
Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Phyllis Walker Newman
Barbara Blackwood Picornell
Linda Grissom Polacheck
Delia McKeithan Ripley
Patricia Cox Rogers
Susan Rundell
Judythe Errico Upjohn
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
P Kay Wagoner
MSN
JoAnn Foust Cardarella
Elizabeth Scovil Carlo
Marjorie Huitt Hawkins
Patsy Littlejohn Hawkins
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Janet Askew Sipple
1971
BSN
Nancy Nelson Caddy
Lynn Grier Coleman
Judith Wilson DiCostanzo
Judith Barnes Gardiner
Jeanne Lilly Griswold
Kerry Allen Hensley
Sandra Baughn Jelovsek
Charlene Blake Knapp
Sylvia Monteith Ledford
Elizabeth Moate Robinson
Marian Crane Sharpe
Deborah Thompson
Mary Vallier-Kaplan
Carole Barrow Warren
1972
BSN
Ann Everhart Bailey
Linda Santorum Byers
Martha Robbins Sadler Dungey
Beverly Tedder Essick
Virginia Elaine Fox
Nina Whitaker Hackney
Patricia Pittman Hotz
Mary Ann Osborne Kerr
Anne Lowe Murphy
Lynne Ann Oland
Christa Parks Roisen
MSN
Leigh Andrews
Alla Traber Campbell
Gayle Tart Davis
Laura Hawes Morrison
Carol Lynne Watters
1973
BSN
Dana Sue Baldwin
Ann Davis Brown
Anne Smith Cole
Cynthia Lee Earthman
Teresa Weaver Foster
Nancy Barrett Freeman
Margaret Wagoner Gilliam
Betty Jean Haddock
Elizabeth Watters Hopper
Jolynn Edwards Hurwitz
Judith Hartsfield Iannuzzi
Maryann Patterson Ingersoll
Carolyn Morgan Inman
Debra Gay Kiser
Colleen Hamilton Lee
Patricia Shaffer Lewis
Janet Opp McPherson
Linda Moon Miller
Linda Doub Morgan
Rosemary Holmes Niles
Holly Dearstyne Norwood
Wanda Shelton Oakley
Catherine Cloaninger Perry
Ona Mercer Pickens
Ann Marie Polk
George I Rand
Pamela Jo Sorce
Kathryn Temple Turner
Suzanne Limparis Ward
Polly Ryan Wheless
MSN
Anna Tansey Bridgman
Maureen Callahan
Deborah Wyndham Cody
Cynthia Mary Freund
Catherine Dzniblinski Harvey
Susan Stuart Harvey
Barbara Reed Hawkins
Rhudine Monroe James
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Linda Ann Lewis
Rebecca Greene Pitts
1974
BSN
Patrica Joyner Babcock
Paula Ridenhour Barringer
Suzanne Lindsay Burge
Gladess Hudspeth Crisp
Nancy Johnson Dewhirst
Carol Zimmerman Garrison
Cathy McGonigle Hamill
Jacqueline W Hermans
Deborah Powers Hoy
Sue Moore James
Beverly Smith Johnson
Jane Mayes Link
Bennie Jo Riley MacCaughelty
Bonita Fleming MacLeod
Julia McGlamery Marshall
Brenda Ray Martin
Wendelin Jones McBride
Laura Britton Michael
Willis Lathrop O'Brien
Rebecca Dewees Olson
Judith Haubenreiser Osborn
Debra Corn Patterson
Constance Hathaway Pendergrass
Sara Rollins Ramsey
Laura McLeod Sorrell
Brenda Gail Summers
Patsy Schupper Theobald
Joan David White
Kathryn Payne Wueste
MSN
Linda Lindsey Davis
Nancy Braddock Davis
Laureen Sue Froimson
Lenner Pender Jefferies
Sandra Baughn Jelovsek
Nancy Siegel Katich
Margaret Riggan Light
Revauda Saunders Lurey
Rebecca Jean Patterson
Judy Kay Farmer Vipperman
Rebecca Story Wilson
1975
BSN
Jean Gail Allen
Marye Cornelia Barden
Catherine Crane Bouboulis
Martha Hains Bramlett
Sandra Hardy Bryson
Vickie Garrett Byler
Preston Noe Comeaux III
Elizabeth Collins Earle
Catherine Foltz Howes
Iris Clapp Hutcheson
Ann Cox Hutchins
Peggy Cabe Kuppers
Sharon Estelle Lock
Kathleen Honer Marshall
Sharon Caston McDow
Diane Shaffer Merritt
Evelyn Rose Paul
Carol Elizabeth Powell
Colleen Cullen Powers
Sally Tapp Williford
MSN
Annette Beam
Elizabeth Johnson Burkett
Betty Jean Haddock
Nancy Meyer Holloway
Jann Budde Logsdon
Susan Foley Pierce
Patricia Cox Rogers
Judith Jones Southerland
Virginia Mary Spaulding
Deborah Thompson
1976
BSN
Karla Susan Alwood
Frances Mervin Andringa
Bonita Craft Aycock
Elizabeth McKinney Bailey
Donna Davis Bost
Debra Huffman Brandon
Kathi Roberts Byrne
Mary Redfearn Creed
Patricia Ann Creed
Deborah Landis Creedy
Mary Lou Caviness Faucette
Cristin Council Flynt
Deborah Webb Frye
Cynthia Darlyn Garrett
Marsha Newton Golombik
C Wayne Hamm
Katherine Farrar Herr
Rachael Brugh Holmes
Arnia Floyd Howard
Sue Baker Isaac
Pamela Ellis Jameson
Christine Earle Jones
Jane Fraley Kodack
Drew Davis Malcolm
Ann Robinson Mandel
Jimmie Drennan McCamic
Barbara Eddinger McNeill
Elaine Snell Mervin
Elizabeth Holcombe Miller
Ann Elizabeth Morrow
Sue Shivar Morrow
Mary Spencer Palmer
Linda Garner Phillips
Linda Fisher Poss
Lyle Byron Snider
Mary Victorine Spainhour
Carolyn Yarborough Walker
Joyce McKeon Wynia
MSN
Elizabeth Margaret Carr
Virginia Elaine Fox
Linda Joyce Cade Haber
Sue Greenwood Head
Delores McCullough Maxwell
Susan Wells Taylor
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
1977
BSN
Susan G Baker
Cynthia Wimberley Brashear
Patricia Packard Conner
Denise Taylor Darden
Johanna Ruth Dewees
Pamela Sobol Erekson
Peggy Carden Frankenstein
Leigh Watson Garmhausen
Natalie Cumston Gray
Linda Allen Hammett
Pamela Reeder Harsant
Elaine Merchant Jeffcoat
Rene Hajjar Jones
Patricia Lyons Kiefer
Linda Sherman Kimel
Catherine Stinson King
Dianne Hall Leloudis
Susan Perry Lineberry
Gail Liles Medlin
Scarlott Kimball Mueller
Yvonne Boies Nicopoulos
Susan Gatlin O'Dell
Helen Krick Poole
David Roger Shoemaker
Judy Beamer Smith
Mabeth Vanessa Smith
Karen Kellogg Soderstrom
Cynthia Mabe Solomon
Lynn Peacock Spaw
Jane Johnson Stine
Laura Conn Stout
Marti Lynn Todd
Mary O'Fallon Vinzani
MSN
Susan Waldrop Donckers
Emily Scovil Eklund
Dorothy Purser Jenkins
Marianne Frances Marlo
Margaret Magdalene Miller
Patty Sue Sanders
Diane Gracy Vester
Louise Elsner Watts
1978
BSN
Caswell Smith Arnold
Martha Schaub Bordeaux
Ann King Cashion
Susan Lesniak Clark
Deborah Smith Ellis
Carol Ann McGonigle Fogartie
Rachel Harper Fulp
Jane King Fulton
Mary Layne Shine Gregg
Catherine Freeman Halligan
Leigh Mewborn Hardy
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Lois Gore Kessler
Jane Ranson Little
Anganette McBryde
Betty Womble Michal
Katherine Anne Moore
Betty Lee Snyder Mustafa
John Slate Oldham
Paula Byrd Reardon
Robin Elaine Remsburg
Nancy Brand Saulino
Carol Harbage Schroeder
Elizabeth Ann Sheely
Sally Mozelle Taylor
Jean Frier Therrien
Carol Rhodes Warden
Toni Spicer Wild
Jacqueline Lancaster Williams
Ann M Williamson
Stephanie Sears Yates
Gina Lawson Young
MSN
Dana Sue Baldwin
Juliet McGuire Beckwith
Harriet Walker Buss
Margaret Gorely Bye
Marilyn McSherry Earle
Christine Bender Ackiss Eller
Pamela Gilliam Lusk
Marie Lee Muskovin
Brenda Marion Nevidjon
Sandra Louise Siehl
Lenore Wagner Smith
P Kay Wagoner
1979
BSN
Bonnie Ford Angel
Janet Boggs Arthurs
Beverly Harrell Barnett
Cheryl Banks Batchelor
Syvil Summers Burke
Darise Daves Caldwell
Janet Wolfe Craft
Mary Susan Curtas
Shotsy Charlotte Faust
Sandra Sleeman Franklin
Mary Ann Yenc Gaster
Jacqueline Lytle Gonzalez
Millicent Hecht Hair
Carol Leigh Hile
Janice Joyce Hoffman
Kathleen Kilbey Hope
Judith Carol Hunter
Laura Fraser Irvin
Kina Walker Jones
Mary Haxton Kinard
Why I Give
Susan Gatlin O'Dell,
BSN ’77, MSN ’95
It is important to me
to be able to have
enough nurses to take
care of our patients.
As our population ages
and we have people
relocating to North
Carolina, we expect to
have more needs and
fewer nurses. There is no
way to keep up without
adding space to our
nursing schools. Our
patients depend upon
and benefit from our
nurses' care, regardless
of their diagnosis. When
I invest in the School of
Nursing, I am helping
in a broader way than
picking one particular
type of patient or illness.
Marissa Fieselman Laster
Jennifer Elesha Manning
Vandy Bass Matthews
Nancy Hudgins Morrow
Deborah Carol Oliver
Sue E Parrish
Kathryn King Perkinson
Robyn Firestone Ross
Jean Cotten Schnaak
Paula Gentry Siegel
Patricia Reilly Skinner
Carolyn Sue Underwood
Leslie Latta Verner
Marianne Bab Vidal
Cynthia Perry Waddell
Pamela Bowling Watson
Mary Ellen Wehrle Woiler
Kimberly Collins Woodard
MSN
Judith Haubenreiser Osborn
Marian Dorsey Willard
Diane Davila Willson
1980
BSN
Lisa Mock Allen
Marie Crooke Bossert
Marian White Byerly
Lucy Ross Clair
Virginia Van Velsor Connett
Rebecca Eggen Dux
Doris McFadyen Fritts
Amanda Lynn Greene
Melody Slaughter Heffline
Leslie Carolyn Hicks
David Talmadge Hinson
Margaret Musgrave Hinson
Beth Harris Jaekle
Susan Page Kane
Sherry Jean Kelly
Virginia Turner Kramer
Donna Winston Laney
Martha Hedrick McCarthy
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Carolyn Reece Nichols
Cynthia Johnson Oakes
Kay Overcash-Jenkins
Nancy Kiley Overstreet
Elizabeth Norwood Peele
Sandra Durham Pulliam
Carolyn Cook Spalding
Katherine Patterson Tommerdahl
Beverly Lynn Wagner
Barbara Langan Wefing
MSN
Sandra Bradley Baden
Carolyn Veronica Billings
Phyllis Brooks Carouthers
Lynn Grier Coleman
Jean Marie Raue Larson
Janet Cheyfitz Meckler
Ann Mabe Newman
Angel Mariano Vasquez
1981
BSN
Linda Holt Anderson
Beth Perry Black
Anna Watson Blair
Beth Herring Chadwick
Ruth Ellen Cole
Gwen Chriscoe Dodson
Susan Adams Doughton
Myra Auman Gebbie
Joan Williams Grady
Lucy Ligon Heffelfinger
Bennett Houston
Donna Renee Jarvis
Jacqueline Dean Jennings
Denise Farlow Jones
Jodi Marlene Lavin-Tompkins
Winnie Smith Leiendecker
Pamela Kay Lowrance
Annette Weaver Mason
Beth Hewlett Mathews
Barbareta Welch McGill
Kathryn Suzanne Miller
Monica Miller Muldoon
Lynne Jernigan Owen
Jennifer Castelloe Riker
Elizabeth Taylor Russell
Kathy S Shields
E Anne Shortliffe
Kendace Felgar Stagg
Kim Motsinger Stanley
Annette Rountree Thompson
Virginia Ne Smith Walton
Marguerite Cosgrove Williams
Paulette Lewis Williams
MSN
Debra Huffman Brandon
Linda Brewer Ellington
Karen Landolina Kanoy
Kathleen Poage Knol
Jane Randall
Marilee Schmelzer
Brenda Gail Summers
1982
BSN
Wanda Mayo Adams
Hortense Redd Britt
Laurie Elmore Cain
Kimberly Elizabeth Carr
Mary Margaret Cushman
Carolyn Christine Dew
Julia Stout Dyer
Janese Hart Frantz
Laura Custer Galloway
Sharon Speer Gentry
Jacqueline Haugh Harris
Reena Grigg Hathcock
Ruth Setzer Hunt
Frances Morgan Irby
Miriam Perrou Jolly
Anne-Marie Stovall Jones
Linda Deese Jones
Kathy Lynne Joyce
Leslie Ellis Kieffer
Elizabeth Rogers Kinsey
Laurie Denise Thompkins Moore
Diane Oakley
Caroline Amelia Pope
Rhea S Redmond
Lee Watson Rice
Ann Elgin Van Meter Rudeen
Joan Von Lehmden Senter
Debra Farlow Surratt
Jeanine Hartgrove Ulsenheimer
Diane Wendelken-Johnston
Glenda Sue Wooten
Edith Juanita Wright
Linda Thompson Young
MSN
Mary Lober Aquilino
Patricia Rouisse Ballentine
Marilyn Jane Chapman
Josephine Altieri Glos
Carol Eiler Glover
Leah Gabriel Weidemoyer
1983
BSN
Maureen Daly Abraham
James Lewis Adams
Kathleen Murphy Baum
Mary Neilson Bishop
Anderson Fisher Black
Lisa Ray Boland
Linda Carol Bryant
Melanie Gayle Bunn
Robert Contino
Deedee Baker Cromer
Mary Hicks Cunningham
Melrose Whitfield Fisher
Mary Yonts Harpster
Alma Marie Holley
Charlene Honeycutt
Kelly Causby Isenhour
Kim Adams Johnson
Mary House Kester
Marie Patterson Klein
Brenda Stevens Boyd Macarages
Jean Hix McDonald
Jana Green Newsome
Elizabeth Robertson Osbahr
Annette Ivey Peery
Janet Stephens Pelley
Deborah Lewis Reiman
Lisa Higgins Shugoll
Margaret Ham Sturdivant
Julie Smith Taylor
MSN
Jo Ann Harrelson Adams
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Brigid Mary Riordan
1984
BSN
Patricia Gordon Albright
Anita Gaston Boland
Brian Dean Bombardier
Dorothy Peterson Burchall
Emily Betts Cox
Tamara Harper Crews
Gary Douglas Crotty
Janet Peele Crumpler
Sandra Shaw Davidson
Rebecca Atkins Dodson
Brenda Lovvorn Featherstone
Judith Walker Gentile
Karen Schillinger Gorgonzola
Alice Cordel Griffin
Beth Patten Griffin
Nancy Walters Harman
Jan Moses Hedgepeth
Tammi Edmundson Holland
Alisa Jung
Diane Ely Littlefield
Lauren Bacon Martin
Martha Legare Mercer
Lori Ann Nash
Elizabeth Emily Ricks
Diane Fites Schifter
Leslie McDonough Sharpe
Sharon Caudle Smotherman
Susan Tant Whitaker
Sarah Simpson Wilson
MSN
Rosemary Cathleen Bootes
Lynn Brittian
Kerry Dominick
Sandra Hines Glantz
Dianne Hall Leloudis
Laura Pole
Elizabeth Larcom Posey
Deanne Erickson Printon
1985
BSN
Leigh Sharp Ammons
Theresa Stackpoole Andrews
Linda Bertsch Barber
Gloria Monkoski Boudreau
Heather Kelly Bryan
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Margaret Lynn Campbell
Mary Tuck Carter
Leslie Louise Davis
Rhonda Blackwood Dear
Pamela Watts Garty
M Leslie Gaynor
Kimberly McAlister Hamilton
Nancy Lou Keaton
Cynthia Cumbo Klaess
Julie Moorefield Knock
Patty Phillips Ledwell
Elizabeth Youngblood McKeon
Johanna Norman
Gaye Oxendine Olson
Ann Boggs Parker
Susan Berdene Reed
Heather Domville Scarff
Kay Satterfield Sharpe
Marianne Kankowski Spinola
Jennifer Dugan Spry
Joan Rosalind Vinson
MSN
Robert Contino
Cynthia Darlyn Garrett
Beth Harris Jaekle
Camille Eckerd Lambe
Sharon Estelle Lock
Diane Clark Meador
1986
BSN
Kena Rae Blackwelder
Susan Shay Brack
Flora Wood Davis
Jane A Frye
Dawn Marie Garcia
Rizza Duterte Hermosisima
Hilda Cates Holloway
Susan Carlene Houck
Tessa Colville Kankelfritz
Janice Jones Long
Brenda Irene Nielsen
Phyllis Akin Remke
Anne Boduch Serody
Pamela Anne Stewart
Jane Peace Thielman
Kimberly Ferguson Wiggins
Laurie Kay Zone-Smith
MSN
Tony Dean Cook
Linda Garner Phillips
Irene Ann Tessaro
Virginia Ne Smith Walton
1987
BSN
Ann Louise Thompson Armstrong
Jennifer Byrd Borton
Karla Jean Brown
Vonda Mendenhall Brown
Constance Lee Carroll
Deborah Hamlett Chestnutt
Victoria Pilar Falcon-Vinke
Susan Barton George
Patricia Beatty Goodwin
Sonya Denise Henderson
Elizabeth Williams Henson
Renee Hardy Hirniak
Glenda Marett Jeffries
Lynda Williams Lewis
Mildred Robinson Lyon
Kristina Ramthun MacPherson
Janet Allen Marable
Tammy Reavis Marshall
Diana Nielsen Moore
Maureen Smith Nixon
Dorothy R Smith
Kimberly Blake Sumrell
Vangela Royal Swofford
Allyson Page Utter
MSN
Deborah Kaye Campbell Betts
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Gary Douglas Crotty
Myra Dennis Landmesser
Sherrie Bragg Lessans
Barbareta Welch McGill
Kim Sue Shaw
Patricia Witt Spegman
Elizabeth Knowles Woodard
1988
BSN
Laurie G Armstrong
Mary Ruth Boshkoff
Robin Sharp Caddell
Melissa Lewis Daniels
Mary Warner Gennett
Locksley Gardner Henage
Joyce Breeden Johnson
Kendra Argo Kruse
Crystal Credle Maia
Elaine Crosbie Matheson
Teresa Blackwell Myers
Patricia O'Keefe Odell
Elizabeth Buchanan Paramore
Jeanelle Starling Price
Cathy Sauls Robinson
Mary Wilson Shaw
Andrea Franks Strauss
Charlena Stroud
Vera Walker Tate
Christine Mencini Waldrip
MSN
Stewart Michael Bond
Elizabeth Binder Gray
Amanda Lynn Greene
Nina Whitaker Hackney
Sarah Anne Kooienga
Mary Query Welch
1989
BSN
Kelley Wayco Barney
Lucinda Ohlwine Bauling
Melanie McLean Bradshaw
Denise Ray Clark
Kimberly Wilder Couch
Joyce Lynn DeLancey
Deborah Faye Flowers
Patricia Thieman Hallman
Amy Moorhead Hardy
Robert Franklin Jessup
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
Why I Give
Carolyn Underwood,
BSN ’79
When I graduated from
the School of Nursing
almost 25 years ago, I
had no idea of the
impact that my time
there would have on the
rest of my life. On a
recent visit, I noticed
that the facilities have
changed little since my
Carrington Hall days.
Meanwhile, the need
to educate a growing
number of nurses to
fulfill the needs of those
in our state and around
the world has grown
dramatically. The sophis-tication
of the science of
health care has changed
significantly, and this
requires that the School
have the resources to
stay abreast of these
changes. I feel that the
new facility for the
School of Nursing is way
past due and I am com-mitted
to doing every-thing
I can to see the
new building become a
reality.
Roxanne Coleman Jones
Susan Jordison Jones
Patricia Ann Mason
Catherine Paschall McCluskey
Karen Lee McDonald
Delia Ruth Nickolaus
Karen Casey Packey
Anita Vann Royal
MSN
Wendy Waara Bierwirth
Leslie Louise Davis
Steven David Forst
Deborah Coates Parce
Joyce Ann Smith
1990
BSN
Maria Daneen Bernhardt
Dianah Cockman Bradshaw
Daria L Campbell
Candice Pike Clark
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Ellen Hampton Davis
John Andrew Davis
Richmond Lee Griner II
Karen M Horrell
Carol Moeller
Judy McNeill Page
Elizabeth Marriott Prata
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Kathy Hendrix Settle
Phyllis Stadler-Lacki
Stephanie Roach Thacker
Linda S Thomas
Sara Anderson Thompson
Amy Smith Turner
MSN
Beth Perry Black
Martha Schaub Bordeaux
Deborah Heffley Brooks
Vickie Garrett Byler
Ellen Hart Doyle
Katherine Anne Moore
Susan Berdene Reed
Nailah Amal Siddique
Melody Ann Watral
Elizabeth McManus Watson
1991
BSN
Julie Wood Barney
Liliana Donoso Berman
Althea Williams Capps
Derek Clarkston Chrisco
R Michelle Ekanayake-Lin
Janice Lynn Eyer
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Dene Raisner Hogge
Sherrie Page Najarian
Carol Hesting Odom
Amanda Sue Rebbert
Dana Snipes Svendsen
Ashley Lefler Wilson
Vanessa Harrell Yencha
MSN
Jennifer Byrd Borton
Diane Ely Littlefield
1992
BSN
Lisa Weaver Bull
Lisa Barnette Callanan
Veronica Strasser Douglas
Cheryl Moseley Gibson
Dawn Logue Hafer
Michele Foster Lewis
Susan Smith Moorman
Jennifer Rene Shoaf
Shonda Michele Stacey
Stephanie LeAnne Stephens
Kathryn Prescott Williams
Carol Hargett Wilson
Diane Marie Yorke
MSN
Elizabeth Wainio Deaton
Sally Walter Gillooly
Mary Louise Jackson
Katherine Sawyer Mann
Ann Shirley Moore
Brenda Irene Nielsen
Diane Marie Schadewald
Jane Peace Thielman
Joan Rosalind Vinson
Donna Kriegbaum Weber
1993
BSN
Pamela Wells Akhter
Deborah Brown Ballard
Rushani Sie Brooks
Shelley Kincaid Bunting
Karyn James Burke
Pamela Proctor Criscitiello
Teresa Denise Gainer
Gretchen Komich Goodson
Martha Ann Haywood
Shannan Mingia Kornegay
Linda Hendrix Lee
Margaret Perkett Lee
Melba Howard McNeill
Michelle Simoneau Mill
Frank Douglas Moore
Tina Marie Morris
Karen Williams Parks
Kelly Rene Peek
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Ronald Keith Shank
Bobbie Jo Lee Simpson
Tamatha Link Vinson
Kristie Lee Willis
Holly Noel Wilson
MSN
Kimberly Elizabeth Carr
Marianne T Evans
Robin Foell Johns
Allana Harper Minnick
Gina Lawson Young
1994
BSN
Mary McNeill Bowers
Courtney Snyder Brown
Susan McKinnon Collins
Katherine Finn Davis
Beverly Baucom Graham
Linda Sue Hale
Michele Johnson Hamilton
Danyel Beck Johnson
Karen Elise Kauffman
DeLeslie Walden Kiser
Melissa Chase Lang
Annie Ruffin Langley
Joan Steiniger Lucas
Sandra Thompson McCormick
Stacy Turkel Nicolau
Cheryl Wasserman Powers
J Brinkley Sugg
MSN
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Susan Elaine Marshall
Deborah Scheele Minanov
Elaine Patricia Moriarty
Susanne Smith Newton
Jean Ann Smith
Linda Baker Stover
Wanda Eileen Wazenegger
Dorothy Botsch Wishnietsky
PhD
Audrey Elaine Nelson
1995
BSN
Virginia Alexander Barnes
Bonnie Janell Booe
Jessica Stewart Brueggeman
Tonie Annette Durrah
Nikki Leigh Eldreth
Barbara Mialik Fisher
Mary Edel Holtschneider
Wendy Ann Hubal
Vicki Ferrell Lewis
Maria Lisa Lockwood
Elizabeth Hilton Long
Karen Michelle McGrath
Susan Lee Minnix
Karen Lynn Overman
Ronald Stephen Riggle
MSN
Fay Linette Brown
Mary Frances McCaffrey-Murphy
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Susan Gatlin O'Dell
Donna Suzanne Odem
Brenda Joyce Olinger
PhD
Mary Jean Thorson
1996
BSN
Christa Abrams Allen
Marie Britt Britt
Kelly Whitley Clark
Cathy Cramer Clayton
Cristian Carmichael Coleman
Elizabeth Langford Hall
Jennifer Jorgenson
Shawne Taylor Llewellyn
Antoinette Lynn Miller
Virginia Johnson Patterson
Lesley Allen Priest
Patty Thomas Raynor
Faith Junghahn Shaw
Kathleen MacEachen Siemer
Beth Perry Stanfield
Angie Efstation Stanley
Amy Lauren Talbert
Stephanie Harris Turner
Jennifer Lasher Ward
Sommany S. Weber
MSN
Lisa Ann Corn
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Katy Suzanne Emmert
Ann Leichtle Hart
Sandra Lynn Jarr
Sue Ann Campbell Jatko
Richard Anderson Sutton
Marlene Stone Yates
PhD
Esther Mae Tesh
1997
BSN
Jennifer Brooks Carrick
Karen Harris Chance
Sherry Reitzel Cook
Karen Denise Dellinger
Megan Roberts Farrell
Martha Rowland Fish
Pamela Garris Gaddy
Kimberly Ardell Hamden
Rachel Beth Heller
Christina Sloop Huitt
Linda D Kessler
Karen Fink Kissel
Jennifer Simms Kolb
Margaret Karen Landreth
Savannah Lapinskes
Shannon Singleton Marbrey
Kelly Wall Margraf
Kelly Mullis McNeill
Bradley Alan Morgan
Delores Ann Price
Susan Catherine Rebert
Rachel Conrad Sadler
Melinda Helms Sander
Julie Michelle Schneider
Jennifer Boulware Tatum
Lois White Thomley
Deborah Kerens Wagner
Monica Black Welborn
Amy Greene White
MSN
Linda Morgan Allen
Bonita Craft Aycock
Jill Causby Barbour
Liliana Donoso Berman
Anita Lanier Brown
Kelly A Fogarty
Cecelia Agnes Landon
Brenda Stevens Boyd Macarages
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Bobbie Jo Lee Simpson
Brookie Allen Wood
PhD
Mary Jo Strauss Gilmer
Carolyn Jane Graham
Sally Miller Maliski
Sheila Judge Santacroce
Barbara Jean Speck
1998
BSN
Nanci Brinn Ahearn
Kiotta Latrise Barnhill
Melanie Dawn Berthel
Elizabeth Maynard Doles
Amy West Eller
Kristin Kalbach Garrett
Crystal Yarbrough Horton
Kristin Ausband Linker
Julie Elizabeth Meyer
Kimberly Stewart Myers
Sara McWhorter Prevost
Jennifer Brown Rich
Jennifer Leigh Ripple
Ann Atkinson Robertson
Tracey Shanee Robertson
Connie Kothera Schwarzen
Kristin Ann Speckhard
Lisa Misako Swencki
Jevita Denise Terry
Joanna Stewart Teske
Kelly Buche Tiernan
Jean Patterson Wester
Sarah Li-Wen Wu
MSN
Patricia Garrett Bernstein
Catherine Emigholz Drozd
Judith Hallock
Michele Sease Head
Sylvia Monteith Ledford
Kathryn Sanders Lytle
Virginia Allan McNair
John Clyde Stover
Cindy Michelle Thrower
Diane Marie Yorke
1999
BSN
Leah Nicole Adkins
Danielle Nicole Koonce Cecil
Ashley Lewis Clark
Mary Ellen Eakright
Caroline Curry Ferrell
Amy Elizabeth Giles
Carey Tyler Hagler
Tana Black Jenkins
Kelley L Knight
Melanie Elizabeth McCann
Linda MacMorran McElveen
Wendy Leigh Meyers
Dylan Kieran Miller
Courtney Goforth Renegar
Rebecca Ann Riesser
Stacey Nicole Sondecker
Christian Lee Turner
Jennifer Greene White
Susanne Relfe Winslow
MSN
Jenny Leong Abernathy
Deborah Brown Ballard
Kathy Baluha
Michele Johnson Hamilton
Laura Anne Harvey
Joanna Y Hiller
Linda Louellen Hopp
Amy Elizabeth Jeroloman
Shawne Taylor Llewellyn
Frank Douglas Moore
Carol Elizabeth Powell
Leslie McDonough Sharpe
Anne Skaife Willet
PhD
Susan Gale Sherman
Julie Smith Taylor
2000
BSN
Linda Bowling
Blaine York Brower
Nancy Rowe Cameron
Kelly Lynne Chelf
Cynthia deRoulhac Clark
Virginie Blackwell Cloutier
Elizabeth Ann Dawson
Abigail Nicole Ensign
Lora Barnhardt Gensheimer
Merrie Beth Gough
Miriam Leigh Greene
Dawn Shaelee Howell
Sonya Robertson Hupman
Andria Kara Kokoszka
Gail Hogue Pernell
Sandra Knight Rodriguez
Katherine Crutchfield Vaughn
Eric Stephen Wolak
MSN
Anna Catherine Alston
Patricia S Ashland
Shelley Kincaid Bunting
Elizabeth Langford Hall
Michael Wayne Joyner
Judith Ellen Swasey
Stephanie Harris Turner
PhD
Debra Huffman Brandon
2001
BSN
Jillian Henretta Angel
Jacqueline Marie Carpenter
Heather Denise Clark
Lisa Woodruff Cosper
Jill Marie Forcina
Meg Gambrell
BethAnn Marie Guevara
Walter George Jones Jr
Adam Darrell Kokoszka
Darci Leiter LaMontagne
Alan Ray Novotny
Courtney Rawls
Yasmin Natasha Singleton
Susan Zucker Spell
Karla Brooke Spitzer
MSN
Karen Denise Dellinger
Linda Sue Hale
Heather Thompson Mackey
Tracey Shanee Robertson
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Gregory Alphonzia Simpson
Jane Brezinski Tomasi
2002
BSN
Amy Davis Bell
Tammara Sorocko Benjamin
Jennifer Kathryne Bromberg
Megan St Clair Bumgarner
Kristen Stott Camplin
Donna Way Chapin
Pattie Jones Christopher
Leslie Ann Collins
Jeffrey John Dudley
Elizabeth Elise Mills
Brandy Elise Motsinger
Mary Thompson Newcomb
Lucille Stokes Purser
Sarah Anne Ricks
Katie Brigden Todd
MSN
Sara Lynne Emory
Linda E Heeg
Andea Morawski Mew
Jennifer Rene Shoaf
Beth Perry Stanfield
Irene Powell Strickland
Mary O'Fallon Vinzani
PhD
Susan H Brunssen
2003
BSN
Class of 2003
MSN
Karla Jean Brown
Deane E Schweinsberg
Susan Gordon Sheffield
ALUMNI NOTES
1967
Barbara Jo Foley (BSN) recently
became a proud first-time grand-mother.
Matthew Patrick Foley was
born August 1, 2003. Foley is a
SON clinical associate professor
and a member of the School of
Nursing Foundation, Inc.
1970
Janet Askew Sipple (MSN)
received an honorary doctorate
from the University of Southern
Queensland (Australia) for her
work in international nursing edu-cation.
Sipple currently serves as
the dean of St. Luke’s School of
Nursing in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, and is a member of
the School of Nursing Foundation,
Inc.
1972
Barbara Anthony Hotelling
(BSN) currently serves as the presi-dent
of Lamaze International and
as a council member for the
Coalition for Improving Maternity
Services.
1981
Kathy Shields (BSN) married
Michael Austin on August 9 on St.
Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.
She earned an MSN in 1995 from
East Carolina University in
Greenville, North Carolina, and has
served as a certified nurse midwife
for the past eight years in
Charlotte, North Carolina. She and
Michael plan to continue living in
Charlotte.
Karen E. Walker (BSN) was
awarded a mentored research sci-entist
award from the National
Institutes of Nursing Research for a
three-year study entitled “Self-
Monitored Physical Activity for
Weight Maintenance.” She is an
assistant professor in the
Department of Nursing at the
College of Health Professions at
Temple University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1988
Robin Dawson Estrada (BSN ’88,
MSN ’96) became the proud parent
of Mia Grace in May 2003. Mia
joins her older siblings Claire, four
years old, and Spencer, aged three.
1993
Pamela Proctor Criscitiello
(BSN) and her husband are relo-cating
to Maryland. While her hus-band
is completing a postdoctoral
program in immunology at the
University of Maryland, Pam will
work with oncology patients at the
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.
1995
Mary Holtschneider (BSN) was
elected to a three-year term on the
American Association of Critical
Care Nurses Board of Directors.
Vicki Ferrell Lewis (BSN) and her
husband, Jim, welcomed their third
daughter, Fiona Kathryn, into the
world May 29, 2003.
Kristina Williams Wilson (BSN
’95, MSN ’00) and her husband,
Chris, are the proud parents of
daughter Kasi Marie, born on
February 28, 2003. The family lives
in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina.
1997
Jill Hardin Knox (BSN) has been
accepted into the family nurse
practitioner program at Western
Carolina University in Cullowhee,
North Carolina.
1998
Kristin Kalbach Garrett (BSN)
and her husband, Jason, welcomed
son James Douglas into their fami-ly
on May 30, 2003.
Julie Elizabeth Meyer (BSN) has
been selected as a member of the
Institute for Nursing Excellence by
the North Carolina Center for
Nursing. Meyer serves as a staff
nurse at Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center in Winston-
Salem, North Carolina.
2000
Jerilyn “Lyn” Cvjetnicanin
Rodgers (BSN) and her husband,
Owen, are the happy parents of
their first child, Graham Peter,
born December 14, 2002.
2003
Rebecca Gary (PhD) won the 2003
Arteriosclerosis/Heart Failure
Research Prize from the American
Heart Association’s Council on
Cardiovascular Nursing for her
original research on home-based
exercise for women with diastolic
heart failure. The prize is one of
AHA’s most prestigious awards.
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March 2004
Kemble Lecture featuring Dr. Betty Ferrell and reception March 1
honoring Dr. Jo Ann Dalton upon her retirement
History Taking and Physical Examination: March 2, 16, 23, 30
Sharpening Your Skills
Substance Abuse Update March 5
15th Annual PACU & Ambulatory Surgery Conference March 13
Survival Skills for Nurse Educators March 18
in Staff Development Roles
Career Opportunities in Clinical Research: Understanding March 20–May 1
the Roles & Responsibilities of CRA and CRC
April 2004
Cutting Edge: Hot Topics in Neurology & Neurosurgery April 2
Test Construction for Critical Thinking in Nursing Education April 3
ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course April 14–15
Certificate in Clinical Leadership April 19–23
Latino Culture & Language April 22
SON Foundation Board meeting April 22
Pediatric Nursing Review Course April 28–30
May 2004
4th Annual End of Life Care Conference May 7
History Taking and Physical Examination: May 7, 14, 21, 28
Sharpening Your Skills
School of Nursing Commencement May 8
Beginning Principles of Teaching in Nursing May 10–13
5th Annual Pain Conference May 13
Nurse Practitioner Review Course May 25–27
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register for a continuing
education program, contact
the School of Nursing Office
of Continuing Education.
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Phone: (919) 966-3638
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Carolina
NURSING
Honor Roll of
Giving Issue
Dear Alumni and Friends,
Each year, we recognize the peo-ple
who have sustained the School
of Nursing with their gifts by pub-lishing
their names in our Honor
Roll of Giving. The list recognizes
gifts received in the fiscal year July
1, 2002 to June 30, 2003. It is our
way of paying tribute to you for your
tribute to us. Since becoming your
dean in 1999, one of my greatest
pleasures is meeting the many
alumni and friends who make our
work possible. Each year, when the
Honor Roll is published, I welcome
the opportunity to thank you again
for your loyalty to the School.
You and those you support,
our students and faculty, hold a
common bond. All of us cherish
the field of nursing for its value to
people and society. This year, when
new budget cuts challenge our
operations, I am especially grateful
for your continuing generosity.
Each gift you make, regardless
of amount, allows the School to
continue its tradition of excellence.
As you will read in this issue of
Carolina Nursing, our faculty con-tinue
to garner honors nationally
and throughout North Carolina.
The work we do in international
health in Malawi, Guatemala,
and Thailand is cited in the inter-national
media. As we go to press,
Dr. Joanne Harrell’s work to docu-ment
the incidence of cardiac risk
factors in over 3,000 North Carolina
children is being discussed in
newspapers and television shows
from England to Australia and
across the United States. From the
mountains to the sea, communities
in North Carolina are the benefici-aries
of our education and research.
The new building addition con-tinues
to be our highest fundraising
priority this year, and it is where we
need your help most. You have our
continuing gratitude for keeping
your alma mater in your hearts and
minds.
With very best wishes,
LINDA R. CRONENWETT, PHD, RN, FAAN
Dean
FROM THEDean
Carolina Nursing is published by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of
Nursing for the School’s alumni and friends.
Dean
Linda R. Cronenwett, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor
Sunny Smith Nelson
Contributing Writers
Shelley Clayton
Kimberly Davis
Cami Harwood
Norma Hawthorne
Ami Shah
Anne Webb
Photography
Steve Exum
Images by Dwayne
Peggy Mattingly
Anne Webb
Steve Wood, University of Alabama
Design and Production
Alison Duncan Design
Office of Advancement
Norma Hawthorne, Director
Austin Johnson, Public Information Assistant
Sunny Smith Nelson, Associate Director, Public
Relations and Communications
Anne Webb, Associate Director, Alumni Affairs
and Annual Fund
Kimberly Davis and Ami Shah, Health Affairs
Communications Interns
Shelley Clayton, Work-Study Intern
School of Nursing
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carrington Hall, CB #7460
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460
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E-mail: sonalum@unc.edu
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Spring 2004 Carolina
NURSING
IN THIS ISSUE
6 Big Issues, Big Ideas
10 With A Little Help from My Friends: SON Aids Elders
at Local Center
11 SON Builds Local, International Bridges to Latino
Communities
12 Making That Leap: SON Grads Get Help in Transition
from Student to Professional Nurse
20 Honor Roll of Giving
REGULAR FEATURES
2 Roll Call
4 SONdries
13 Alumni News
16 Noteworthy Nurses
18 Development News
28 Alumni Notes
On the Cover: The continued support of alumni and friends is
helping the SON remain a leader in nursing education,
research and service.
Photo by Steve Exum
Dr. Linda Beeber is the winner of the
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
2003 Excellence in
Research Award.
Beeber was recognized
at the association’s
annual meeting in
October for her
research with depressed
low-income and Latina mothers. Beeber
also has been selected as the chair of
the 2003-2004 APNA Research Council,
where she leads the development
of a set of linked collaborative psychi-atric/
mental health nursing studies
on suicide.
Janet H. Blue, information and
technology systems director for the SON,
was elected to the UNC-Chapel Hill
University Managers Association Board
of Directors. The association offers a
forum for the exchange of information
relevant to management in the
University and is comprised of over
160 campus-wide managers.
Dr. Diane Holditch-Davis received
the Marlene Kramer Outstanding
Alumni Award from
the University of
Connecticut for her
significant contribu-tions
to the field of
nursing research. She
received her MS in
parent-child nursing in 1980 and her
PhD in developmental psychobiology in
1985 from the university.
Congratulations to Dr. Catherine
Ingram Fogel, one of only four
individuals in 2003 to
win the prestigious
Robert E. Bryan Public
Service Award. The
award is given by the
Carolina Center for
Public Service to
honor UNC students, staff and faculty
for exemplary public service. Fogel was
honored for her work to enhance the
health of incarcerated women.
Chris Harlan, a research instructor
for both the UNC Schools of Nursing
and Public Health, recently became a
member of the Orange County Board of
Health. She will utilize her experience
working in Latin America to help the
local Latino community during her
three-year term.
Congratulations to Dr. Gail
Mazzocco on receiving the Donald
L. Spencer Award from the Western
Maryland Area Health Education
Centers (WMAHEC). The award was
given to Mazzocco for her contributions
to the growth and vitality of WMAHEC
and for improving the quality of
health care for the citizens of western
Maryland. Mazzocco served as the west-ern
Maryland outreach coordinator for
the University of Maryland School of
Nursing before accepting the statewide
North Carolina AHEC nursing liaison
position at UNC.
Dr. Margaret S. Miles was honored
with a distinguished alumni award
from the University of Pittsburgh
School of Nursing. Miles, an MSN grad-uate
of the school in 1965, was chosen
for the award based on her leadership
abilities and significant contributions
to the profession and the school.
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce was
inducted as the president of the North
Carolina Nurses Association at its annu-al
conference in October. Pierce will
serve a two-year term. Her duties
include addressing nursing issues,
advocating for the health and well-being
of the state’s citizens and nurses
and serving members’ changing needs.
Dr. Joyce Rasin has been named as
one of the year’s 100 greatest nurses in
North Carolina by The
Great 100, Inc. She
was chosen based on
her work educating
health-care providers
across the state about
vulnerable popula-tions,
including older adults and ethnic
and cultural minorities. The Great 100,
Inc. is a grass-roots peer recognition
organization that annually honors the
nursing profession and recognizes
outstanding nurses in North Carolina.
Congratulations to Elizabeth
Tornquist, a SON lecturer and editori-al
consultant, on being named as an
honorary fellow of the American
Academy of Nursing. Tornquist is
known nationally among health-care
professionals as a leading grant-writing
instructor. With her editorial assistance,
SON researchers have submitted
enough successful grant applications to
raise the SON’s level of extramural
research funding from $22,000 in 1985
to over $10 million in 2002.
Fogel
4 CAROLINA NURSING
ROLL CALL
Holditch-Davis
Tornquist and Dean Linda Cronenwett
Rasin
Beeber
SPRING 2004 5
Dr. Susan Brunssen is one of the
SON’s newest assistant professors.
Brunssen joined the School in July, not
long after graduating from the SON’s
doctoral program in 2002. She has
extensive experience in pediatric and
neonatal nursing, and her research
focuses on the effects of inflammatory
insults on neurocognitive development
of premature babies.
Dr. Beverly Currence joined the
School in September as a research
assistant professor. She formerly served
as a research assistant professor in the
School of Medicine’s Department of
Radiology, where she supervised clinical
research initiatives in the breast imag-ing
section of the radiology laboratory
of the Lineberger Comprehensive
Cancer Center.
Dr. Donna Havens was recruited
to the position of academic division
co-chair, beginning her work in August
2003. Havens comes to UNC from the
School of Nursing at Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, where she
was the Elouise Ross Eberly professor of
nursing and the professor-in-charge of
research. She also served as a senior
research associate with the Institute for
Policy Research and Evaluation in the
Department of Health Policy and
Administration and a professor of
health services research in the
Department of Health Evaluation
Sciences in the Penn State College of
Medicine. Her research interests lie in
the organization of nursing practice in
hospitals and the quality of patient
care. She has conducted research on
professional nursing practice models
and hospitals known for excellence.
Dr. Linda Hughes is a new research
associate professor with the SON.
Hughes was a postdoctoral fellow at
the SON before joining the faculty and
has served as a faculty member at the
schools of nursing at the University of
Texas Medical Branch at Galveston,
Wichita State University and the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center. Her past research focused on
evaluating the effectiveness of nursing
interventions on patient outcomes,
specifically for older patients with
cancer receiving home nursing care.
Currently, she is investigating hospital
nurses' use of discretion in the
prevention and management of adverse
patient events.
Dr. Mary H. Palmer, Umphlet
distinguished professor in aging, has
been promoted from associate professor
to professor. She recently received a
grant totaling nearly $650,000 to lead
a project focusing on improving the
nursing care of acutely ill elders.
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce has been
promoted from associate professor to
professor.
Dr. Suzanne Thoyre has been
promoted from assistant professor to
associate professor with tenure.
Joan Vinson joined the SON in June
as the School’s associate director of
admissions and student services. Vinson
is a double Carolina alumna, having
received her BSN in 1985 and her MSN
in 1992. She most recently served as the
nurse manager of the intensive care
nursery at WakeMed and as the associ-ate
director for perinatal education at
the Wake Area Health Education Center.
Dr. Maihan Vu is a new research
assistant professor whose research
interests include program evaluation,
qualitative research and adolescent
health. Vu received a PhD in health
behavior and health education from
UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Public
Health in 2003 and now serves on
Dr. Joanne Harrell’s studies investigat-ing
the most effective ways to treat or
prevent the development of pediatric
type 2 diabetes (STOPP-T2D).
Dr. Vivian West is a research assistant
professor with STOPP-T2D as well. West
comes to the SON from East Carolina
University’s Center for Health Care
Sciences Communication and
Telemedicine Center, where she acted
as the project evaluation and research
director for research funded by the
National Library of Medicine.
Lisa Woodley joined the School in
August as a clinical assistant professor.
Woodley received her MSN from the
University of British Columbia and
served as a nursing instructor at
Langara College in Vancouver and the
University of New Mexico College of
Nursing before joining the SON.
Woodley’s areas of teaching expertise
include pediatrics and medical-surgical
nursing.
New clinical instructors include
Rebecca Beadle, Nanette Blois-
Martin, April DeGuzman, Ted
Heiser, Mary Ann Meyer, Laura
C. Nasir, Beth Pack and Megan
Parpart.
New research instructors include
Virginia Gamble, Karl Gustafson,
Phyllis Kennel and Chris Raines.
New Faculty and Faculty Promotions
6 CAROLINA NURSING
“We have been
able to broaden
and share our
knowledge.
There are many
things we can
learn from one
another, even if
there are cultur-al
variations
between our
ways of care.”
PAMELA MSUKWA
SONDRIES
Look at a map of Africa and
pinpoint Malawi to the southeast.
Now scan your eyes over that map,
traveling over African savannahs
and ocean waters to the sandhills of
North Carolina. Eight nurses from
this small, landlocked country made
this same journey in July to learn
more about women’s health, partic-ularly
in the areas of reproductive
health and HIV/AIDS prevention,
treatment and research methods.
The UNC School of Nursing and
the UNC School of Medicine’s
Department of Infectious Diseases,
which administers an HIV-related
research facility in Malawi where
these nurses work, sponsored the
trip with funding from a National
Institutes of Health Fogarty
International Research
Collaboration Award.
The nurses spent 12 days in
Chapel Hill sitting in on lectures
and attending clinics with physi-cians
and nurse practitioners at
UNC Hospitals and the Durham and
Wake County Health Departments
to learn new skills and practices.
“We have been able to broaden and
share our knowledge,” commented
Pamela Msukwa. “There are many
things we can learn from one
another, even if there are cultural
variations between our ways of care.
Everyone has made learning so easy
for us. Our hosts have made us feel
like we have come into our own
mother’s home.”
SON faculty members Sally
Laliberte, a midwife and nurse prac-titioner,
and professor Dr. Margaret
Miles served as instructors and
guides for the women during their
stay. “This exchange has been so
important,” says Laliberte. “To hear
what is done in Malawi in maternal
and child health has been enlight-ening,
and I feel like I’ve only
begun to learn. Both groups have
expanded their base of knowledge
through this experience.”
Miles is continuing her work
with the Department of Infectious
Diseases to plan further training
opportunities through the Fogarty
grant. She also is working toward
sending undergraduate students to
Malawi for a clinical practicum in
the summer through support from a
US Department of Education grant.
Malawi Nurses Visit UNC to Learn
More about Women’s Health
Malawi nurses Pamela Msukwa, Jacqueline Nkhoma, Agatha Bulah, Charity Salima, Rhoda Mwanja, Wezi Msungama,
Tiwonge Msopa and Patricia Mawindo visited Chapel Hill last summer to learn more about women’s reproductive
health. SON faculty members Sally Laliberte and Dr. Margaret Miles served as their guides and instructors.
SPRING 2004 7
Coretta Dorsey recently found
herself in front of a classroom of
undergraduate nursing students at
the Medical University of South
Carolina and, frighteningly enough,
in charge of teaching them princi-ples
of med-surg nursing. Jeanette
Humphreys had 15 years between
her teaching experiences and
thought a refresher course or two
would help her transition back into
her role as an educator. They both
eagerly enrolled in the SON’s new
Certificate in Nursing Education
program.
Created by Drs. Bonnie Angel
and Barbara Jo Foley, the certificate
program offers both new and
experienced nurse educators the
opportunity to learn the latest in
teaching skills and practices. As
the first graduates of the certificate
program, they both said they felt
more prepared for their roles as
nurse educators.
“Among the important things I
learned from this experience were to
use a variety of teaching styles and
to strive to meet the needs of your
audience,” explained Dorsey, who is
herself a doctoral candidate at the
University of South Carolina. “I
think it’s certainly necessary for
those in academia to have some sort
of certification as educators since
teaching is often not a part of the
content that is covered in nursing
programs. This program helps tie
up those loose ends.”
“I now see myself as a planter
of seeds,” said Humphreys. “This
program has made teaching more
fun and challenged me to be more
creative.”
Other recent graduates of the
program include Emily Whitehead
and Mary Tilly.
“First Graduates” Receive Certificate in Nursing Education
Drs. Bonnie Angel and Barbara Jo
Foley present Coretta Dorsey with
her Certificate in Nursing Education.
Drs. Margaret Miles, Suzanne
Thoyre and Marcia Van Riper
attended the Third Nordic
Conference of the Nordic
Collaboration of Nurses Working
with Children and Their Families in
Reykjavik, Iceland, in October. The
purpose of the trip was to facilitate
network building and international
dialogue on children’s health,
specifically in child development,
the modern lifestyles of today’s
families and the administration of
health care for the child and family
in a changing society. Each faculty
member gave a presentation relat-ing
to these themes. Miles spoke on
“Helping Parents of Hospitalized
Children: The Nurse-Parent Support
Model,” while Van Riper presented
work on the ethical, legal and social
implications of advances in genet-ics,
including the impact of genetic
testing on families. Thoyre, an
expert on feeding issues for pre-term
infants, gave a presentation on
creating opportunities for positive
feeding experiences. She also visited
with neonatal nurses at Reykjavik’s
Children’s Hospital. “This was a
really thought-provoking trip,”
says Thoyre. “It was an excellent
opportunity to look at how societal
supports affect the feeding decisions
families make.”
SON Faculty Go to the Edge of the Earth for
Research on Children’s Health
BIG IDEAS
8 CAROLINA NURSING
BY SUNNY SMITH NELSON
What are the big issues in nursing? We asked this of several
School of Nursing faculty members who serve as leaders in
nursing organizations and their responses were varied.
Answers included attrition within the profession, lack of fund-ing
to support education and the importance of community
involvement. Do you know what your response would be to
this question? Or how you would handle those issues? Read
on to see if you agree with what these nursing leaders have to
say and how they are hoping to make a difference through
their involvement in their respective professional associations.
BIG ISSUES
SPRING 2004 9
Measuring Nursing’s
Contribution to the
Quality of Health Care
DR. RUMAY ALEXANDER
• SON Clinical Assistant Professor and
Director of Multicultural Affairs
• National Quality Forum Member
www.qualityforum.org
“Nursing care is critical to the
quality of patient care and the suc-cess
of any health-care
delivery
system. Given the
importance of
nursing care, the
absence of stan-dardized
nursing
care performance
measures is a major void in health-care
quality assurance and work
system performance. An apprecia-tion
by all health-care stakeholders
for the importance of nurses to
patient outcomes in tangible, meas-urable
ways is very important to me,
and as a member of the National
Quality Forum’s Nursing Care
Performance Measures Steering
Committee, I hope to make it per-fectly
clear that nurses make the
difference in the care of a patient.
The National Quality Forum is a
private, non-profit organization
with the mission of improving
American health care through
endorsement of consensus-based
national standards for measurement
and reporting of health-care
performance data that provide
meaningful information to the
public and health-care providers
about whether care is safe, timely,
patient-centered, beneficial,
equitable and efficient. We are
working to establish consensus on
a set of evidence-based measures
for evaluating the performance of
nursing in acute care hospitals
and the implementation of those
measures within health-care
organizations to improve nursing
care and patient outcomes. The US
government will use the results of
our work as standards of care except
when inconsistent with existing
standards or laws.”
Creating Nurse
Educators
DR. BONNIE ANGEL
• SON Clinical Associate Professor
• North Carolina League for Nursing
President-Elect
www.uncg.edu/nur/nclnhome.htm
“It is imperative that we develop
and support educators as we face
the impending fac-ulty
shortage in
academia, which
may worsen the
current shortage of
nurses in practice
or educational
roles. I strongly
believe we should support multiple
efforts to attract and develop new
educators as well as to re-energize
and retain current educators. The
North Carolina League for Nursing
is unique in its specific focus on
issues related to nursing education
in all levels of academic, staff devel-opment
and patient education are-nas.
The NCLN offers nurse educa-tors
the opportunity to discuss edu-cational
issues and seek innovative
solutions through a variety of strate-gies.
For example, in 2003 to 2005,
the NCLN will continue with their
scholarship awards for students and
teaching excellence awards for
nurse educators. We will also begin
an annual nurse educator confer-ence
to address the needs of nurse
educators locally and nationally. My
work in NCLN provides an exciting
opportunity to enhance the profes-sional
growth of nurse educators in
North Carolina.”
Developing Leadership
to Stop Attrition
DR. BARBARA JO FOLEY
• SON Clinical Associate Professor and
Director of Continuing Education
• North Carolina Organization of
Nurse Leaders Board Member
“The North Carolina
Organization of Nurse Leaders is
vitally important to
nursing in the state
because nursing
leaders play a criti-cal
role in solving
the nursing short-age.
Many studies
say that nurses
leave the field because they are
dissatisfied with the environment.
The organization provides advocacy
for a good working environment for
nurses and assists nurse leaders in
identifying and obtaining the
resources necessary to provide that
good working environment. As
co-chair of the program/education
committee and a member of the
board of directors, I have found the
most important issues facing the
organization are the nursing short-age
and patient safety. These issues
are important because they directly
impact the welfare of patients. One
thing that I am doing to contribute
to the resolution of the nursing
shortage is to offer management
training to nurses and other clinical
managers through the School of
Nursing’s Certificate in Clinical
Leadership Program. One of the
current beliefs is that nurse attrition
will be lower if the nurse managers
are experienced in leadership. I
believe this new program is one
important way to address this
issue.”
Alexander
Angel Foley
“Nursing care is
critical to the quality
of patient care and
the success of any
health-care delivery
system.”
DR. RUMAY ALEXANDER
10 CAROLINA NURSING
Funding the Future
of Nursing
DR. LINDA CRONENWETT
• SON Dean and Professor
• North Carolina Council of Deans
and Directors of Baccalaureate and
Higher Degree Programs President
• North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Task Force on the Nursing Shortage
Member
“To produce the number of
nurses needed for basic and
advanced practice,
faculty and scien-tist
positions and
nursing adminis-trator
and execu-tive
roles, we must
ensure a rich
supply of nurses
educated at the university and colle-giate
level. In North Carolina, we
are experiencing faculty shortages,
as well as shortages in other nurs-ing
fields requiring bachelor, master
and doctorate degrees, yet our
schools are graduating 40% of new
nurses with bachelor’s degrees and
60% with associate’s degrees. The
North Carolina Council of Deans
and Directors of Baccalaureate and
Higher Degree Programs provides a
collective voice for serving the peo-ple
of North Carolina by advancing
the quality of baccalaureate and
graduate programs in nursing in
the state. We seek to ensure that any
changes to the state’s student enroll-ments
maintains or increases the
percentage educated in universities
and colleges. We also seek increased
support for graduate education in
nursing. We would like to see target-ed
legislative support for funding of
faculty and staff positions to enable
the schools of nursing to meet the
state’s need for increased numbers
of BSN, MSN and PhD graduates.
We seek this support because state
support for public universities, the
primary providers of graduate edu-cation
in nursing in North Carolina,
has declined for three years in a
row. We cannot increase the supply
of BSN and higher degree graduates
without restoring and adding to the
basic funding required to support
these labor-intensive programs.”
Revising Educational
Standards
DR. BEVERLY FOSTER
• SON Clinical Associate Professor and
Director of Undergraduate Programs
• North Carolina Board of Nursing
and National Council of State
Boards of Nursing Member
www.ncbon.com
www.ncsbn.org
“I currently serve as an elected
education representative on the
North Carolina
Board of Nursing
and as a member
of the National
Council of State
Boards of Nursing.
While there are
many different
issues that these two organizations
are dealing with, one that I am
personally involved in is the review
of educational standards. At the
NCBON, we’re looking to see how
standards for nursing schools
should be revised to become more
contemporary, and we’re working
with several different educational
agencies and local community
members to achieve this goal.
This may be our most challenging
objective, as any new regulations
must go before the public and the
state legislature for approval.
Another provocative issue the Board
is exploring is its role as a regulato-ry
agency. The Board is traditionally
seen as a regulator, but I would like
to see the Board continue to take on
a more supportive role that provides
consultation to nurses and educa-tional
institutions. I would like for
nurses to increasingly receive guid-ance
and advice from the Board, not
just mandates and regulations.”
Promoting Ethics in
Research
DR. MARGARET MILES
• SON Professor
• Southern Nursing Research Society
Vice-President Emerita
www.snrs.org
“The Southern Nursing
Research Society is a regional
nursing research
organization that
supports and
encourages the
development of
nursing scholar-ship
in the south-ern
region of the
US. The main activity of SNRS is the
annual meeting, which I was in
charge of for the past two years as
the Society’s vice-president. I now
serve as the advisor to the new vice-president.
The purpose of the meet-ing
is to give senior researchers, new
investigators and students the
opportunity to present their
research, which allows their fellow
researchers the chance to build
on their own research, learn new
methods and debate about research
methods and outcomes. Without
such opportunities, science would be
slowed and fewer nurses would
become interested in and sustain an
interest in research endeavors. One
of the biggest issues I focused on
during my time as vice-president
was how to include ethical issues
and standards into the annual
meeting on a regular basis. These
issues included the new regulations
announced by both HIPAA and the
National Institutes of Health.
These are important to all nurse
researchers, regardless of their area
of expertise or level of experience.”
Cronenwett Foster
Miles
“To produce the
number of nurses
needed for basic and
advanced practice,
faculty and scientist
positions and nursing
administrator and
executive roles, we
must ensure a rich
supply of nurses edu-cated
at the university
and collegiate level.”
DR. LINDA CRONENWETT
Supporting Public
Health Nurses
DR. SONDA OPPEWAL
• SON Clinical Associate Professor and
Associate Dean for Community
Partnerships and Practice
• American Public Health Association’s
Public Health Nursing Section
Immediate-Past Section Chair
www.csuchico.edu/~horst/
“The American Pubic Health
Association works to improve the health
of Americans and
global neighbors. The
25 sections are the
organizational unit of
APHA’s membership.
Achievements of
the Public Health
Nursing Section while
I served as chair include providing writ-ten
testimony on nurses’ work environ-ments
and patient safety to an Institute
of Medicine study committee; submit-ting
a policy resolution to APHA entitled
‘The Impact of a Public Health Nursing
Shortage on the Nation’s Public Health
Infrastructure;’ and working with Quad
Council members to finalize public
health nursing competencies. The other
three partners that comprise the Quad
Council of Public Health Nursing
Organizations include the Association of
State and Territorial Directors of
Nursing, the Association of Community
Health Nurse Educators and the
American Nurses Association’s Congress
on Nursing Practice and Economics.
Our section also was successful in
achieving specialty nursing organiza-tion
status from the American Nurses
Credentialing Center so that our Section
can apply for provider and approver sta-tus
for continuing education credits.
This is a tremendous opportunity to
advance continuing education for pub-lic
health nurses. Last spring, our
Section developed a statement on small-pox
vaccination and emergency pre-paredness
that was endorsed by the
Quad Council. The statement on small-pox
vaccination and emergency pre-paredness
emphasized the importance
of strengthening existing public health
systems so that public health workers
can efficiently respond to health threats.
Our hope is that all of these achieve-ments
will fortify the public health
nursing workforce and ultimately
improve the health of all people.”
Ensuring an Adequate
Workforce
DR. SUSAN FOLEY PIERCE
• SON Professor
• North Carolina Nurses Association
President
www.ncnurses.org
“Legislators, policy makers and
leaders of other health professions
all turn to the
North Carolina
Nurses Association
to obtain nursing’s
position on a vari-ety
of issues related
not only to health-care
delivery, but
also to the health and well-being of
North Carolina citizens. NCNA is
therefore the voice for professional
nursing in our state. The most com-pelling
issue for NCNA is clearly the
evolving and increasing nursing
shortage. NCNA has formed a part-nership
with the North Carolina
Institute of Medicine to convene a
yearlong process of problem-solving
solutions to this crisis. By winter, the
task force will issue its recommenda-tions,
broadly addressing the issue
from the supply-education side, from
the retention-workplace side, from
the regulatory side and from the
recruitment side. Health care cannot
be delivered without an adequate
nursing workforce. ‘Adequate’
means not only numbers, but also
properly educated and experienced
nurses working in positions that are
both challenging and satisfying. The
health of our citizens depends on us
solving these issues. If the task force
can bring about even one recom-mendation
in each of these areas, all
of our work will be well worth it.”
Advancing Community-
Focused Education
DR. RICHARD REDMAN
• SON Professor and Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs
• Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health Board Member
www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
“Colleges and universities
have used communities and their
resources as ‘educa-tional
labs’ where
students learn and
practice their pro-fessional
skills
taught in the class-room,
but the expe-rience
has often
stopped short of making a difference
in communities. Colleges and
universities are tremendous
resources that can help communities
in so many ways, but often these
resources haven’t been shared or had
an impact. Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health began in
the early 1990s as part of a national
movement to look at ways that
health professions schools might
engage with their communities.
I have served on CCPH’s board of
directors since 2002 and will serve a
four-year term. This experience has
transformed how I view universities
and communities working together.
I think the core mission of CCPH is
also the biggest issue it deals with:
how institutions of higher learning
can develop active, meaningful part-nerships
with communities. These
partnerships can help communities
address some of the pressing prob-lems
they face today. The partner-ships
also provide a powerful educa-tional
approach for students and
faculty in the health professions.
We all live in communities that are
struggling with pressing problems.
Linking educational institutions
with communities is a powerful way
to make a difference.”
Oppewal
Pierce
Redman
“Health care cannot
be delivered without
an adequate nursing
workforce. ‘Adequate’
means not only num-bers,
but also properly
educated and experi-enced
nurses working
in positions that are
both challenging and
satisfying.”
DR. SUSAN FOLEY PIERCE
SPRING 2004 11
12 CAROLINA NURSING
BY AMI SHAH
The independent Anne Harris
could never fathom living in a
nursing home or hiring a full-time
caregiver. At the same time, howev-er,
she is the first to admit she needs
a little extra assistance these days.
“I was scared to stay at home by
myself during the day,” explains
Harris, a gentle older woman with a
quick smile. “So my husband start-ed
looking for a place for me to stay
while he was at work.”
In their search to find some-where
for Harris to pass the day, the
couple came across the Central
Orange Adult Day Health Center.
Recognizing the county’s grow-ing
senior population and its need
for assistance, the Center opened in
March 2003 as a part of the Orange
County Department on Aging’s
Master Plan. It is the first of its kind
in the county, meeting a need that
is growing exponentially, says
Steven Reda, the Center’s former
program director.
“The senior population in
Orange County is expected to
increase by 130% by the year 2020,”
he explains. “There are currently
more older adults than school chil-dren
in Orange County, and these
numbers are expected to only
increase.”
The Center currently serves
around eight to 10 seniors a day,
with the cost for participation deter-mined
on a sliding scale based on
an individual’s ability to pay.
Transportation is provided for all
Orange County residents as well in
an effort to make the Center accessi-ble
for more seniors.
Dr. Sonda Oppewal, the School
of Nursing’s associate dean for com-munity
partnerships and practice,
worked with the Orange County
Department on Aging to establish a
contract to provide nursing services.
Jo Ann Hendricks now provides pro-fessional
nursing care to the partici-pants
four hours each day the
Center is open. The arragement
enhances clinical practice, educa-tional
and research opportunities
for SON students and faculty, says
Oppewal.
“The School of Nursing’s
involvement with this project builds
on the strength of our faculty in the
area of geriatric health,” she
explains. “We knew the Center
would provide a great opportunity
for scholarly research and a positive
learning atmosphere for students to
help improve and maintain the
wellness of the elders in the com-munity.”
Their work is critically impor-tant
for the Center to meet its goals
of helping seniors remain independ-ent,
providing support to families
and caregivers and preventing
unnecessary institutionalization.
Among the services provided are
health education, medication
management, monthly physical
assessments and collaboration
with clients’ various health-care
providers to ensure a consistent
plan of care. Keeping the seniors
intellectually stimulated through
reminiscing activities, arts and
crafts, singing and field trips are
part of the job, too. According to
Hendricks, both seniors and staff
benefit from the interaction.
“The Center is a wonderful place
for seniors to make new friends,
participate in meaningful activities
and maintain and improve their
physical and cognitive abilities
while feeling welcome and safe,”
she says. “The students from the
School of Nursing benefit as well as
they are exposed to a different side
of nursing. There is prevention and
management, individual and popu-lation-
focused activities and clinical
and public health services.
Hopefully, some of them will want
to become more involved with sen-iors
in the community as this popu-lation
and need is rapidly increas-ing.”
Isabelle Wauters, a student in
the SON’s 14-month BSN program,
worked there during the fall semes-ter
as a part of her public health
nursing class.
“I started at the Center on
September 3 and went there every
Wednesday,” says Wauters. “I found
that the Center is a good place for
people who are losing their inde-pendence.
Because of dementia or
other health problems, these clients
cannot lead an independent life,
and they need to be monitored,
cared for and stimulated. The
Center provides a safe haven for
them five days a week, and it gives
their caregiver a break.”
For Harris and many seniors like
her, the Center, its nurses and all of
its services are a welcomed addition
to the community.
“Everyone is so nice and treats
me so well,” says Harris. “I don’t
know what I would do without it.”
“The Center is a
wonderful place for
seniors to make new
friends, participate in
meaningful activities
and maintain
and improve their
physical and cognitive
abilities while feeling
welcome and safe.”
JO ANN HENDRICKS
With a Little Help from My Friends:
SON Aids Elders at Local Center
Anne Harris gets encouraging words and a check on her blood
pressure from Jo Ann Hendricks, a registered nurse contracted
through the SON to assist Center clients with their health needs.
SPRING 2004 13
Christina Harlan has spent a
good deal of time wandering the
world, learning the languages and
customs of people different from
herself. Some of her fondest memo-ries
are from her time living and
traveling in Latin America, where
she learned to speak Spanish,
Portuguese and Haitian Creole. Now
back in the United States and serv-ing
as a research instructor at the
UNC Schools of Nursing and Public
Health, she has found that her
understanding of Latino culture is
an asset in her work with patients of
Hispanic origin. It was thus espe-cially
heartening to her when sever-al
of her students said they wanted
to learn more about the language
and culture of their Latino patients.
“Persons of Hispanic or Latino
origin make up almost five percent
of North Carolina’s total population,
and Latinos now represent the
largest minority group in the United
States,” notes Harlan. “The students
recognized the need for more nurses
to speak Spanish in order to connect
with the Latino community.”
Harlan and SON associate pro-fessor
Dr. Janna Dieckmann knew
their required community health
nursing courses offered the perfect
opportunity to help their students
make this connection. With grant
support from the University Center
for International Studies and the
North Carolina Area Health
Education Centers, Harlan and
Dieckmann are developing both
local and international opportuni-ties
for their students to work with
more Latino communities.
¡HOLA-NC!, or Health
Opportunities for Latino Awareness
in Nursing Curricula, is the more
localized component of their efforts.
“The goal of ¡HOLA-NC! is to
weave a Latino-focused thread
through both the theoretical
content and clinical experiences of
students,” explains Dieckmann.
“That’s why we’re working to
develop new Latino-focused sites
appropriate for clinical placements,
externships, honors and independ-ent
study research projects and
serving-learning opportunities.”
Sites now being developed around
central North Carolina include local
community centers serving Latinos
such as El Centro Latino and
Piedmont Health Services.
Another important component
of the program, adds Dieckmann,
is that students are encouraged to
participate in programs such as
La Charla or ¡A Su Salud!, which
are Spanish language and culture
classes offered at UNC targeted at
health professions students.
Harlan knows from first-hand
experience, though, that the best
way to learn more about a language
and culture is to immerse oneself
in it. That’s why the study abroad
experience in Antigua, Guatemala,
she has developed for students is
especially noteworthy. For ten days
in March, Harlan is leading a group
there to study the language,
customs and health-care practices
of the country. Students will live
with local families, tour the
area’s clinics and attend intensive
language classes.
“International content enhances
students’ sense of themselves as citi-zens
of the world with skills to work
effectively with patients, their fami-lies
and communities of all back-grounds
and life experiences,” she
explains. “It would also influence
their fellow students. With such a
tight-knit group, constantly inter-acting
in various courses and clini-cal
practica within one curriculum,
international experiences of some
will link to all, given class discus-sions,
group assignments, problem-based
learning and more.”
Harlan and Dieckmann believe
their efforts and those of their
students are significant steps in
helping eliminate the cultural and
language barriers that contribute to
disparities in health care for Latinos
in the state.
“The education of health
professionals includes imparting
both knowledge and the ability to
apply that knowledge,” says Harlan.
“We are working to offer an exciting
chance to do both.”
BY CAMI HARWOOD AND SUNNY SMITH NELSON
“The goal of
¡HOLA-NC! is to
weave a Latino-focused
thread
through both the
theoretical con-tent
and clinical
experiences of
students.”
DR. JANNA DIECKMANN
Christina Harlan stands in front of the display that she
and her daughter, Noel Stephen, created to publicize
the School’s study abroad experience in Guatemala.
SON Builds Local,
International
Bridges to Latino
Communities
14 CAROL INA NUR S ING
Making that Leap:
SON Grads Get Help in Transition
from Student to Professional Nurse
BY KIMBERLY DAVIS
You remember your first days
on the floor as a registered nurse—
the nerves, the unfamiliarity, the
nearly overwhelming responsibility.
What was it that got you over those
hurdles and helped you learn to
love your job? Perhaps a more
experienced nurse mentor who took
you under his or her wing, someone
who had experienced the same
emotions you were struggling with?
A smoother transition from student
to nurse is the goal of many health-care
administrators, and a new
program at UNC is exploring how
to accomplish this goal through
innovative means.
The UNC School of Nursing and
UNC Hospitals are serving as a beta
test-site for a year-long, post-bac-calaureate
nurse residency program
that started in July 2003. Sponsored
by the University Healthsystems
Consortium and the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing,
this program’s purpose is to aid
in the transition of the recent
baccalaureate graduate into a
professional nursing role.
Positive feedback from last year’s
alpha test-sites prompted UNC
Hospitals to volunteer as a beta test-site.
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce, a SON
professor and coordinator for the
program, credits the strength of the
reputations of Dr. Mary Tonges, UNC
Hospitals’ senior vice-president and
chief nursing officer, and Dean
Linda Cronenwett for the selection
of UNC Hospitals as a test-site.
Fifty-nine new BSN graduates
hired by UNC Hospitals between May
15 and August 15, 2003 have been
the first to experience the residency
program. The first phase of the
program, which lasted from July
2003 to January 2004, consisted of
four seminars covering a curricu-lum
set forth by UHC. Some of the
topics addressed were incorporating
evidence-based practice, managing
the changing patient, offering end
of life care and utilizing resources
on the unit.
The second phase of the
program, started in February,
consists of interactive discussions.
Nurse residents meet in small
groups with an assigned UNC
Hospitals resident facilitator and
a UNC SON faculty member.
UNC Hospitals’ program coordi-nator
Deonni van der Bergh
explains the role of the resident
facilitator as that of an expert nurse
and role model. The resident facili-tator
is someone who “will open the
resident’s eyes to the application of
his or her existing knowledge base
in the clinical setting.”
Resident facilitators represent a
number of practice areas, including
operating rooms, intensive care
units, medical-surgical units,
neurosciences/psychiatry, the
NC Jaycee Burn Center and the
NC Children’s Hospital.
The other half of the mentoring
team, the SON faculty member, has
the same basic goals as the hospital
resident facilitators and shares
responsibilities in leading the
interactive discussions. These
discussions use case studies and
examples to focus on professional
role development, patient safety
and outcomes, leadership and
development of a career plan.
This year is the only commit-ment
to the UHC nurse residency
program, though Pierce and van
der Bergh expect that a yearlong
residency program will continue in
following years, building on the
program evaluation and successes
of this year’s pilot.
“In this time of nursing short-age,
retaining registered nurses in
the acute care workplace is key,”
notes Pierce. “The transition from
student to professional nurse often
determines whether a nurse stays in
acute care or leaves. At the end of
the program, we are hoping that the
residents will be more satisfied with
their nursing roles in acute care
because they are more comfortable
with their responsibilities, are more
clear about the role of the profes-sional
nurse and are better able to
match their unique talents with an
area of nursing practice.”
Dr. Susan Foley Pierce and Deonni van der Bergh (standing)
talk with the UNC Hospitals’ first nurse residents about their
experiences as new nurses.
PHOTO BY PEGGY MATTINGLY
SPRING 2004 15
ALUMNI NEWS
The School of Nursing Alumni
Association Board of Directors
held its annual meeting on Friday,
October 17 at the Carolina Club.
President Tonya Rutherford-
Hemming (BSN ’93, MSN ’01) led
the meeting. Five new directors were
welcomed to the board, including
Megan Bumgarner (BSN ’02),
Nancy Freeman (BSN ’73), Jona
Martino (BSN ’03), Evelyn Paul
(BSN ’75), and Glenda Wooten (BSN
’82).
The directors learned about new
initiatives at the School and new
challenges facing its leaders. A high-light
of the day was a presentation
by fellow board members Geri
Laport (BSN ’55) and Mary Lou
Booth (BSN ’57). The duo shared
their experiences on what life was
like for the first Carolina nursing
students in the 1950s.
Working committee plans for the
year include emphasizing the
regional continuing education
programs for alumni and making
more attempts at outreach through
events, e-mail and encouraging
reunions. Programs for students also
remain a priority. The full board
voted for a change in bylaws to
expand the awards program. The
group also expressed concerns over
the budget cuts facing the school
and the effect this has on students,
faculty, staff and learning facilities.
Further developing alumni interest
in and support for the SON is an
important goal in the coming year.
The board bid farewell to four
departing members who have given
valuable service to the organization.
Abby Ensign (BSN ’00), Mary
Holtschneider (BSN ’95), Susan
King-Zeller (BSN ’95) and Jo-Anne
Trowbridge Martin (BSN ’69) were
all recognized for their outstanding
contributions to the board and asso-ciation.
There are many opportunities to
participate in Alumni Association
activities for board members and
non-members alike. Please contact
Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 or
Anne_Webb@unc.edu if you are
interested in joining the alumni
board, hosting a regional event,
planning a class reunion or partici-pating
in a career panel for students.
Alumni Board of Directors Focuses on
Outreach and Support for Upcoming Year
The Alumni Board of Directors held a productive
meeting during Alumni Weekend.
The doctoral program at the
School of Nursing has been preparing
nursing scholars and scientists for
over a decade. Last spring, SON PhD
alumni, current doctoral students and
faculty came together to celebrate this
history and to honor Dr. Carol Hogue,
former associate professor and associ-ate
dean of graduate studies, on the
occasion of her retirement.
The reunion began with a lunch-eon
for all attendees in Carrington
Hall. Sponsored by the SON Alumni
Association, this was an opportunity
for each participant to share current
endeavors and career highlights.
Dean Linda Cronenwett and Dr. Diane
Holditch-Davis, the director of doctor-al
and post-doctoral programs, led the
discussion. The teaching, research
and practice experiences in the room
were inspiring, many attendees com-mented,
as they learned about the
activities of their peers.
“Time, distance, change—
nothing can erase the bond of our
experience during our doctoral educa-tion,”
noted Carolyn Graham (PhD
’97). “It was great to see each other,
catch up on what we're all doing and
to stand as evidence of life after the
PhD program!”
Reunion participants and others
from the community enjoyed an
afternoon lecture by Dr. Kathleen
Buckwalter, a leader in gerontological
nursing. Buckwalter, the University
of Iowa associate provost for health
sciences, director of the UI Center on
Aging and a nursing professor, is
internationally recognized for her
research in psychiatric nursing, aging
and long-term care.
Following Buckwalter’s lecture, a
retirement tribute and reception hon-oring
Hogue was held at the Carolina
Inn. Doctoral alumni, students, facul-ty
and friends enjoyed sharing time
with Hogue and celebrating her rich
history of service to the School and
the graduate program. Hogue joined
the School of Nursing in 1986, where
she served as associate professor until
2002. She also held the position of
associate dean for graduate studies
from 1992-2000.
Dr. Carol Hogue and family
SON Hosts PhD Reunion and Retirement
Celebration for Dr. Carol Hogue
“Time, distance,
change���nothing
can erase the
bond of our
experience during
our doctoral
education.”
CAROLYN GRAHAM, PHD ’97
16 CAROLINA NURSING
ALUMNI NEWS
Festivities began on Friday,
October 17, when members of the
BSN Class of ’63 enjoyed lunch at
their old favorite, the Rathskellar,
and spent time checking out the
sights on Franklin Street. Classmate
Faye Webster McNaull hosted
the group and Dean Cronenwett
later that evening for dinner and
fellowship.
The BSN Class of ’73 enjoyed
Friday dinner and a visit with the
Dean at the home of Nancy Barrett
Freeman in Durham.
The BSN Class of ’83 came
together for a cocktail party hosted
by alum Jean Hix McDonald at the
Chapel Hill Country Club, and ’93
BSN classmates celebrated their
ten-year reunion at the Sheraton
Hotel. Tonya Rutherford-Hemming,
BJ Simpson and Jennifer Wilkins
planned the event.
This alumni weekend marked
the first “Late Night with Roy
Williams,” which also took place on
Friday night. Alums and their fami-lies
headed to the Smith Center to
check out the team and get ready
for the upcoming basketball season.
A Carolina blue sky welcomed
SON alums as they arrived at
Carrington Hall for the School’s
Alumni Day celebration on
Saturday, October 18. Members of
the BSN Class of ’59 greeted each
other as they came together for their
45th reunion. Over 140 alumni
from many different graduating
years enjoyed a morning of
activities at their alma mater.
Participants were able to see the
“Stan the Man,” the School’s
human patient simulator, and tour
the Biobehavioral Laboratory to
learn more about the faculty’s
ongoing sleep studies.
Event attendees also got a
firsthand view of the new building
construction and enjoyed a fun
lunch of Carolina barbeque on the
adjacent Mitchell Hall lawn.
Highlights of the day were the
presentations of the alumni of the
year awards and a class gift to the
building fund. Award recipient Anne
Whittington (BSN ’83) entertained
the group by sharing the life lessons
she has learned from her seeing eye
dog, Karl, and the BSN Class of ’93
proudly presented a check to Dean
Cronenwett to help the School meet
its building fund goal.
The Tar Heel football team lost a
heartbreaker game to Arizona State,
but this couldn’t dampen the festive
spirit gained from reminiscing
about student experiences and
celebrating the continued success of
the School.
Alumni Weekend 2003
Alumni Weekend brought
many generations of
alums back to Chapel Hill
to celebrate and reconnect
with classmates.
Connie Barden, BSN ’75
Connie Barden, MSN, RN,
is co-recipient of the 2003
Alumna of the Year Award.
She currently works as a car-diovascular
clinical specialist
at Mercy Hospital in Miami,
Florida. Previously, Barden
worked as a clinical specialist
at South Miami Hospital and
at Mt. Sinai Medical Center
before joining Mercy in
1999. In addition to working
at the hospital, Barden is an
adjunct assistant professor
at the University of Miami
School of Nursing.
Barden received her
bachelor’s degree in nursing
from UNC-Chapel Hill in
1975 before attending the
University of Alabama to
earn her master’s degree
in nursing in 1982. She
also is certified as a critical
care nurse and a clinical
specialist.
Barden is an active member
of the Miami chapter of the
American Association of
Critical Care Nurses, a group
dedicated to providing
quality resources to nurses
to improve the health care
of critically ill patients and
their families. She has pub-lished
several articles and
lectured at length on topics
related to her specialty. In
addition to local association
roles, she is a past member
of the AACN National Board
of Directors and is the
immediate past president
of AACN.
2003 Alumna
of the Year
SPRING 2004 17
Anne Whittington,
BSN ’83
Anne Whittington, MBA,
MSN, RN, also received
the 2003 Alumna of the
Year award. In 2002,
Whittington became the
treasurer of the American
Association of Diabetes
Educators. She took on this
role in addition to her job
as a diabetes program man-ager
at the Naval Medical
Center in San Diego.
She previously served as the
outreach coordinator for
diabetes education with
the State of Georgia before
moving to San Diego.
Whittington received her
bachelor’s degree in nursing
from UNC-Chapel Hill in
1983. She went on to earn
her master’s degree from
the Medical College of
Georgia before obtaining
the Master of Business
Administration from Brenau
University in Gainesville,
Georgia.
Whittington served as
president of the Greater
Augusta Diabetes Educators
while living in Georgia and
is now an active member in
the San Diego chapter of
the American Association
of Diabetes Educators. She
has been a member on the
AADE Board of Directors
since 1999 and served as a
reviewer for the associa-tion’s
A Core Curriculum for
Diabetes Education (fourth
edition), which is consid-ered
the ultimate source
for diabetes educators
2003 Alumna
of the Year
18 CAROLINA NURSING
NOTEWORTHY NURSES
Dr. Carol Z. Garrison was named
the sixth president of The University
of Alabama at Birmingham in July
2002. She had
been interim
president of the
University of
Louisville since
June 2002 and
provost there since
1997, functioning
as both the chief
academic officer
and chief operat-ing
officer. As
provost, she had oversight for a
growing medical center and helped
create an undergraduate research
initiative and expand the honors
program.
Garrison, who earned the
Bachelor of Science in nursing from
UNC’s School of Nursing in 1974, is
a native of Montclair, New Jersey.
“The baccalaureate program at
the UNC School of Nursing prepared
me extraordinarily well,” she says.
“As a nurse, I received a broad
based biomedical education, but
also learned principles of teaching,
learning, communication, counsel-ing,
problem solving, leadership,
and management, just to name
a few areas. I know of no other
discipline where the education is as
comprehensive. As an undergradu-ate
I was exposed to high standards
and expectations. By example I was
shown that the sky was the limit
and that people mattered. These are
values that I have carried with me
throughout my professional career.
I am extremely proud to be an
alumna of the School of Nursing at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.”
Garrison earned her master’s
degree from the School of Nursing
at UAB in 1976 along with a
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Certificate from UAB in 1978. In
addition to her skills as an adminis-trator,
Garrison is a researcher and
educator. Over the past 17 years, she
has been awarded more than $5.9
million in federal research funding.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
Delta Omega and Sigma Xi.
Upon her departure from the
University of Louisville, Dr. Garrison
was recognized by the chair of the
Board of Trustees for her leadership,
vision, energy and passion for
undergraduate education and a
strong commitment to opportunity
and access. She was acknowledged
for her integrity and honesty in all
her interactions at the University
and as an example for others to
emulate.
Prior to her Louisville post,
Garrison was associate provost and
dean of the graduate school at the
University of South Carolina from
1994 to 1997. She joined the faculty
at South Carolina in 1982, was
named professor and chair of
epidemiology and biostatistics in
1992, and was honored twice as a
Carolina Distinguished Professor.
Her first appointment was at the
University of Alabama at
Birmingham where she was
assistant professor in nursing from
1976 to 1978.
Garrison
Noteworthy Nurses
Dr. Carol Z. Garrison, BSN ’74
BY NORMA HAWTHORNE
“The baccalaureate program at the UNC School of Nursing prepared
me extraordinarily well. As a nurse, I received a broad based
biomedical education, but also learned principles of teaching,
learning, communication, counseling, problem solving, leadership,
and management, just to name a few areas. I know of no other
discipline where the education is as comprehensive.” DR. CAROL Z. GARRISON
PHOTO BY STEVE WOOD, UAB
SPRING 2004 19
Connie Parker has spent most of
her post-graduate school life in the
Wilmington, North Carolina area,
serving as a nurse and community
leader on a volunteer basis. Several
years ago she, along with other com-munity
leaders, began to see the need
for specialized health care for the teen
population. As she noted from having
teens of her own, this age group has
special needs but is often neglected.
“We always assume that teens are
healthy, and they certainly aren’t the
most communicative group,” says
Parker. “Teens don’t feel comfortable
going to a pediatrician after a certain
age, and there is a perception that
they aren’t old enough for adult
health-care providers.” Thus WHAT,
or Wilmington Health Access for
Teens, was created.
When Wilmington’s development
began to take off in the late 1980s
and early 1990s, Parker’s group
worked to make teen health care a
priority for their growing city. In addi-tion
to population growth within
Wilmington, the city is the urban
heart of many surrounding rural
counties and the care provided there
often extends beyond town bound-aries.
Parker and a local committee
began planning WHAT in 1992. The
center is now in its own facility where
the physical and mental health issues
of teens are treated. Local school-based
offices of the program are also
in place. WHAT primarily serves teens
with financial needs, but those with
insurance often request care, too,
because the organization is so well
targeted to its customers.
Customer involvement has been
key since the organization’s begin-ning.
The organization’s board of
directors began by involving local
teens in the planning phase and con-tinues
to work with a teen advisory
board. Because of this involvement,
WHAT has continued to grow and
expand its services. The organization
now sponsors programs on pregnancy
prevention and smoking cessation
and trains a group of peer health
educators.
According to Parker, the success of
the effort has been the true partner-ship
among many local organiza-tions.
The area hospital, schools and
foundations all pulled together to
support and develop the initiative.
Parker has been the one to centralize
the efforts of the organization, help-ing
organize its lead-ership
and securing
much of its original
funding through
grants. She now serves
as executive director
and is responsible for
the overall manage-ment
of WHAT.
Parker received
the Wilmington
Civitan Club Citizen
of the Year Award and the distin-guished
Razor Walker Award from
UNC-Wilmington, which recognizes
individuals who have made extraordi-nary
contributions to the lives of
children and youth in North
Carolina. She credits many of her
skills to her undergraduate education.
“I think the Carolina nursing
education experience teaches wonder-ful
skills in communication and
dealing with people,” she explains.
“It also gives students a sensitivity
and awareness which enables them to
listen and pick up on unmet needs.”
Connie Parker, BSN ’65
BY ANNE WEBB
“I think the Carolina nursing education experience teaches
wonderful skills in communication and dealing with people. It
also gives students a sensitivity and awareness which enables
them to listen and pick up on unmet needs.” CONNIE PARKER
Parker
20 CAROLINA NURSING
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
With a little more than a year to
go before the new building is dedi-cated
in spring 2005, alumni and
friends gathered this past May at the
home of Carolyn Underwood (BSN
’79) and Dr. Bob Blum in Cary to
mark the countdown to completion.
Dean Linda Cronenwett updated
the group on construction progress
and how the new building will help
faculty and students to better teach
and learn in a state-of-the-art facili-ty.
With state support diminishing
and the demand to educate more
nurses in an era of critical shortages
increasing, the support of alumni
and friends is vital in order to build
this new building addition, she
explained. The addition will serve
as the school’s foundation for the
future by doubling existing space in
which to teach and perform
research. The benefits to North
Carolinians will be immense: in this
new building faculty will teach using
the most technologically advanced
scientific tools and conduct vital
research that promises to mitigate
the most critical health-care issues.
Dean Cronenwett pointed with
pride to the numerous teaching
awards the faculty have garnered
and the fact that the SON was
ranked fourth nationally among
nursing schools in funding from the
National Institutes of Health this
year. The $7.5 million in research
funding from NIH will further
support faculty and students as they
discover ways to help patients and
families prevent and manage illness.
As the guests celebrated, they
also discussed ways to help the
School raise the additional $2 mil-lion
needed to complete the building
before it is dedicated. The School
and Foundation Board have raised
half of the $4 million in private
funds needed to complete construc-tion,
yet this success is also a
reminder that there is more to do
before the goal is met.
Among those participating in the
evening’s festivities were Foundation
Board president Margaret Raynor,
BSN ’67, and Dr. Bobby Raynor;
Patty Maynard Hill, BSN ’69, and
Dr. Gary Hill; Dr. Franklin Clark, III,
and Theresa Clark; Helen Umphlet
and her niece, Angela Hall; Evelyn
Farmer Alexander, BSN ’56, and Ben
Alexander; Jane Snyder Norris, BSN
’56, and Tom Norris; Martha Yount
Cline, BSN ’55, and her daughter
and son-in-law, Dara and James
Linn; Geri Laport, BSN ’55, and
Robert Laport; Pam Jameson, BSN
’76, and her niece, Caroline
Edwards; Alumni Association presi-dent
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming,
BSN ’93, MSN ’01, and Holly
Ingram; SON emeriti faculty mem-bers
Laurice Ferris and Barbara
Rynerson; director of continuing
education Dr. Barbara Jo Foley,
BSN ’67, and Joe Foley; and SON
professor Dr. Molly Dougherty.
Countdown to Completion:
Alumni and Friends Celebrate
A perfect night! Carolyn
Underwood (BSN ’79)
and Bob Blum hosted a
gala tribute to the new
building at their Cary
home in May 2003 to
honor building donors
and focus attention on
the need for funding
to complete the
construction.
Margaret Raynor,
SON Foundation
Board president,
and Dr. Barbara Jo
Foley, SON clinical
associate profes-sor,
Class of ’67
classmates
Martha Yount Cline, BSN ’55, and
Dean Cronenwett
Helen Umphlet and Angela Hall
SPRING 2004 21
THE NEW BUILDING
Markers and
Milestones:
A Foundation
for the Future
$4 million in private funds
must augment state invest-ment
of $10.1 million
$2 million in pledges & gifts
received for building as of
11/1/03
$2 million additional needed
by spring 2005 building
dedication
All building gifts and pledges
requested by December 31,
2004
Spring 2005 commemorative
dedication book will honor all
building donors; make your
gift or pledge before
December 31, 2004 to be
included!
Carolina First
Campaign Update
Total $15 million goal for the
School of Nursing (includes
$4 million for new building)
52% raised to date (as of
January 2004)
56% of the campaign is over
(campaign ends June 30,
2007)
$7.8 million raised (as of
January 2004)
What Counts?
• Bequests
• Trusts
• Cash Gifts
• Real Estate
• Pledges
• Much more
To make your gift or pledge,
contact Norma Hawthorne
at (919) 966-4619 or
norma_hawthorne@unc.edu.
It is astounding what the Class of
2003 has accomplished and it repre-sents
a FIRST for the SON. The
$10,300 scholarship they presented
to the School at their May gradua-tion
is the largest gift to be given by
a SON graduating class. Why and
how did they accomplish this feat?
“We had such incredible experi-ences
during our junior and senior
years at the nursing school,” says
Laura Correll, senior class board
president. “We learned so much, and
we became very close friends. Our
faculty were supportive and helped
us through the trials of classroom
study and clinicals. The Senior Class
Board decided that the best way we
could give back was to provide a
scholarship fund that would be a
lasting tribute to the school and help
nursing students who come after us.
It’s something we can continue to
contribute to as we establish our
careers.”
The class raised funds all year
right up until graduation day! They
held bake sales, car washes, Krispy
Kreme and bagel breaks, and sought
support from family members and
faculty and staff in the School.
Class of 2003 Makes a Record Gift
When you make a gift to the
building fund that is part of a Class
Gift Campaign, it can count twice!
For example, if you want to make a
gift of $25,000 to name the East
Lobby and Reception Area on the
First Floor of the new building, a
plaque will designate this as your
individual gift. And, if your class is
organizing a Class Gift Campaign,
this $25,000 gift will also count to
name a space in honor of your class.
For example, if your class collective-ly
raises $200,000 representing
gifts from many classmates, the
Continuing Education Suite in the
new building can be designated with
a plaque: A Gift from the Class of
XXXX. Contact Norma Hawthorne or
Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 if you
are interested in making a class gift
or organizing one.
Class Gifts
Leverage Your
Investment
in the Future
The BSN Class of 2003 gave the SON’s largest graduating class gift at their May commencement ceremony.
The BSN Class of 1993 pre-sented
their class gift during
Alumni Day 2003.
PHOTO BY ANDREW ROSS
PHOTO COURTESY OF TONYA RUTHERFORD-HEMMING
SPRING 2004 23
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
The Honor Roll of Giving
A Big Thank You!
Our alumni and friends keep the pulse of the School of Nursing healthy and strong. A very special
thanks to each of you listed on this Honor Roll of Giving for your generosity and thoughtfulness. Your
private gifts enable us to provide student scholarships and other forms of academic support, as well as
stipends to assist teaching and research faculty. Over 50% of the School’s budget comes from private gifts
and grants — we can’t do what we do without you!
These days, our new building addition is at the top of our minds. Amid the sound of jackhammers and
cranes, we look to the day when its completion will allow us to increase enrollments and accept more of
the qualified students who apply each year as we work diligently to better address the nursing shortage.
The added space will give young men and women access to state-of-the-art clinical skills labs where they
will learn and practice the science and art of nursing. Here, our nationally recognized faculty will men-tor
our future caregivers, teachers and researchers.
To do all we can for them, we must support them with a sturdy foundation. All else derives from this.
Over 60% of the gifts made to the School last year were designated to the building fund. The names on
the following pages have enabled us to make substantial progress. So far, you have provided $2 million
of the $4 million in private funds required to construct the new addition. Another $2 million is still
needed to meet our obligations before the new building is dedicated in spring 2005.
When you consider how your SON education influenced your life, please consider giving back by making
a five-year pledge to the building. If you’ve already done so, perhaps you would consider doing a little
more either individually or through a class gift.
You have our gratitude for making the future possible and sustaining us today.
Norma Hawthorne
Director of Advancement
Executive Director, SON Foundation, Inc.
P.S. Request a copy of A Foundation for the Future, a tribute to the new building
construction and the people who are making it possible. Call (919) 966-4619 or e-mail me at
Norma_Hawthorne@unc.edu.
*The list recognizes gifts received in fiscal year July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003. We value each donor and do our best
to ensure that each person is correctly noted on the following pages. If you notice that your name was misspelled or
omitted, please contact Anne Webb at (919) 966-4619 or Anne_Webb@unc.edu.
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
CARRINGTON SOCIETY
$1,000 or more
Evelyn Farmer Alexander
Kenneth F Anderson Jr
Donna Blair Booe
Mary Lou Norwood Booth
Linda Santorum Byers
Franklin St Clair Clark, III
Martha Yount Cline
Laurel Archer Copp
Winnie Williams Cotton
Linda R Cronenwett
Denise Taylor Darden
Bette Leon Davis
Walter Royal Davis
Molly Dougherty
Margery Duffey
Laurice Ferris
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Lucy Taylor Fort
Frances Hill Fox
J Thomas Fox Jr
Landon Lewis Fox
Cynthia Mary Freund
J Frank Gilreath
John Christopher Glantz
Sandra Hines Glantz
Carolyn Jane Graham
Maryann Patterson Ingersoll
Patsy Colvard Johnson
Geraldine Snider Laport
Robert Edmund Laport
James Alonza Leggette Jr
Mary Anderson Leggette
Janet Merritt Littlejohn
William Littlejohn
Carolyn White London
Barbara Williams Madden
Margaret S Miles
W Paul Monroe
Jane Sox Monroe
Jane Snyder Norris
Thomas Lloyd Norris Jr
Constance Newnam Parker
Hilda Hine Patterson
John Smith Patterson
Evelyn Rose Paul
Constance Hathaway Pendergrass
Kenneth Hardy Rabin
Mary Coleman Rose
Barbara C Rynerson
Blaine C Short
Susan W Short
Janet Askew Sipple
Susan Willey Spalt
Ed Starnes Jr
Ramelle Hylton Starnes
Louise Norwood Thomas
Carolyn Sue Underwood
Cynthia Perry Waddell
P Kay Wagoner
Bailey D Webb
Jo Lentz Williams
Geneva File Williams
Ashley Lefler Wilson
John Bernhardt Wilson Jr
Elizabeth Knowles Woodard
BSN Class of 2003
Burlington Industries Foundation
Carl S Swisher Foundation, Inc
Golden LEAF, Inc
Novant Health, Inc
Thomas Henry Wilson & Family
Foundation
Waddell Foundation
DEAN'S CLUB
$500–$999
Audrey Joyce Booth
Donna Davis Bost
Linda Carol Bryant
Joy Smith Burton
Harriet Walker Buss
Gwenlyn Huss Butler
Emily Greer Cawood
Beth Herring Chadwick
JoAnn B Dalton
Jack Delbridge Dunn
Mary Howard Dunn
Cheryl Lynn Elliott
Roberta Brown Feather
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Sara Blaylock Flynn
Kathleen Walsh Free
Nancy Scott Fuller
W Erwin Fuller Jr
Sandra Gail Funk
Barbara B Germino
Nancy Walters Harman
Rizza Duterte Hermosisima
Betty H Landsberger
Jean Marie Raue Larson
Jane Mayes Link
Kristina Ramthun MacPherson
Brenda Jarrett Matthews
Jean Hix McDonald
Sandra Roberts Montgomery
Marjorie Staub Mosher
Virginia J Neelon
Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Gloria Huss Peele
Ona Mercer Pickens
Rebecca Greene Pitts
Colleen Cullen Powers
Richard W Redman
Nancy Brand Saulino
Barbara Hedberg Self
Ronald Keith Shank
Sonda Hawley Shank
Anne H Skelly
Stacey Nicole Sondecker
Margaret Weidel Sprott
Patsy Schupper Theobald
Sara Anderson Thompson
Helen W Umphlet
David Russell Ward
Martha Lentz Waters
Ann M Williamson
Rex Healthcare
Univ Health Systems of Eastern
Carolina
BENEFACTORS
$250–$499
Anne Elizabeth Belcher
Paula Kirby Benway
Shelley Kincaid Bunting
Sarah Smith Carey
Marsha S Correll
Beverly Desmond Davis
Elizabeth Maynard Doles
Mary C Dowe
Emily Scovil Eklund
Judith Rogers Gibson
Martha Zink Gibson
Susan Stuart Harvey
Bonnie Keaton Hensley
Bennett Houston
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Margaret Karen Landreth
Margaret Riggan Light
Diane Ely Littlefield
Sophia P Livas
Jann Budde Logsdon
Elizabeth Hilton Long
Alene M Mercer
Kathryn Suzanne Miller
Linda Moon Miller
Lori Ann Nash
Audrey Elaine Nelson
Carolyn Buck Pearson
Susan Foley Pierce
Ann Bennett Propert
Elizabeth Moate Robinson
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Sheila Judge Santacroce
Jennifer Carr Savitz
Diane Marie Schadewald
Diane Fites Schifter
Deane E Schweinsberg
Courtney Wells Sewell
Lindsay Fodrie Sewell
Elizabeth Pugh Summey
Carol Rhodes Warden
Rebecca Story Wilson
George I Woodall Jr
Speight, Mary P (Estate of)
PATRONS
$100–$249
Margaret Evans Adams
Carol Ann Consolvo Adcock
Pamela Wells Akhter
Lisa Mock Allen
Karla Susan Alwood
Leigh Sharp Ammons
Linda Holt Anderson
Laurie G Armstrong
Elena Codispoti Aseltine
Natalie Salter Baggett
Sally Smith Baldwin
Deborah Brown Ballard
Patricia Rouisse Ballentine
Virginia Alexander Barnes
Ruby Gilbert Barnes
Paula Ridenhour Barringer
Deborah Dewees Baughn
Kathleen Murphy Baum
Annette Beam
Judith Reavis Beauchamp
Carolyn Veronica Billings
Mary Neilson Bishop
Brian Dean Bombardier
Elaine Gettman Bourdeaux
Susan Shay Brack
Jane Helen Brice
E C Bryson Jr
Katharine Pickrell Bryson
Jennifer Kathryne Bromberg
Rushani Sie Brooks
Blaine York Brower
Fay Linette Brown
Susan H Brunssen
Lillian Ward Bryant
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Melanie Gayle Bunn
Margaret Gorely Bye
Marian White Byerly
Shirley Hamrick Byrd
Kathi Roberts Byrne
Lisa Barnette Callanan
Daria L Campbell
Margaret Lynn Campbell
Elizabeth Scovil Carlo
Kimberly Elizabeth Carr
Constance Lee Carroll
Robert Dorian Casey
Nancy Gibbes Chapman
John T Childers
Rene Clark
Ashley Lewis Clark
Cynthia deRoulhac Clark
Jane Huber Clark
Virginie Blackwell Cloutier
Anne Smith Cole
Karen Hopkins Coley-Harrison
Bonnie Blue Colhoun
Virginia Van Velsor Connett
Tony Dean Cook
Allene Fuller Cooley
M Carolyn Cooper
Lisa Ann Corn
Emily Betts Cox
Janet Wolfe Craft
Lee McCarter Cranford
Mary Redfearn Creed
Robert Walter Creed
Gary Douglas Crotty
Janet Peele Crumpler
Ann Davisson
Claudia Barnes Deese
Kay R Demyan
Mollie Hood DeWalt
Cornelia Beck Dewees
Johanna Ruth Dewees
Nancy Johnson Dewhirst
Nancy Robison Dickinson
Judith Wilson DiCostanzo
Susan Adams Doughton
Veronica Strasser Douglas
Kevin Robert Dungey
Martha Robbins Sadler Dungey
Julia Stout Dyer
Cynthia Lee Earthman
Ruth Kaemmerlen Efird
Dorothy Mosley Ellmore
Beverly Tedder Essick
Patsy Ruth Farlow
Shotsy Charlotte Faust
Barbara Caldwell Fletcher
Cristin Council Flynt
Beverly Brown Foster
Peggy Carden Frankenstein
Mary Bowsher Friedman
Matthew Roy Friedman
Laureen Sue Froimson
Jane A Frye
Monica Witterholt Fuller
Jane King Fulton
John E Furnas
Teresa Denise Gainer
Carol Zimmerman Garrison
Sara Elizabeth Garvin
Lora Barnhardt Gensheimer
Sharon Speer Gentry
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Marsha Newton Golombik
Patricia Beatty Goodwin
Marcia Somers Gore
Elizabeth Binder Gray
Elizabeth Dianne Greenhill
Elizabeth Lusk Gregg
Mary Layne Shine Gregg
Olivia Womble Griffin
Jocelyn Stebbins Guice
Linda Joyce Cade Haber
Betty Jean Haddock
Mary Harrison Hall
Judith Hallock
Cathy McGonigle Hamill
Joanne Summey Harrell
Jacqueline Haugh Harris
Pamela Reeder Harsant
Norma Hawthorne
Patricia Dodson Hayes
Martha Ann Haywood
Jan Moses Hedgepeth
Peggy Needham Heinsohn
Jessie Carraway Heizer
Kerry Allen Hensley
Christine Aufricht Heyse
James Rodney Hicks
Leslie Carolyn Hicks
Carol Leigh Hile
Jo Ann Zaron Hiti
Anita Whitener Hoffler
Janice Joyce Hoffman
Dene Raisner Hogge
Carolyn Mayo Holloway
Hilda Cates Holloway
John Rufus Holt
John W Holt
Mary Edel Holtschneider
Charlene Honeycutt
Cheryl Vaughn Howe
Nancy Wills Hudock
Patricia Whitley Hudson
Gail G Hudson
Jolynn Edwards Hurwitz
Marilyn Beaver Hutcheson
Judith Hartsfield Iannuzzi
Carolyn Morgan Inman
Elaine Merchant Jeffcoat
Lyn Mathis Jenkins
Ann Linville Jessup
Anne Glenn Johnson
David Franklin Johnson
Beverly Smith Johnson
Miriam Perrou Jolly
Francis G Jonas
Christine Earle Jones
Jane Carey Karpick
Jane S Kaufman
Nancy Lou Keaton
Sherry Jean Kelly
Patricia Ann Hunter Key
Mary Haxton Kinard
Debra Gay Kiser
Judy Heller Knauer
Virginia Turner Kramer
Kendra Argo Kruse
Nita Laca
Myra Dennis Landmesser
Judith Davis Lang
Benjamin James Lee
Colleen Hamilton Lee
Barbara Dunn Legler
Dianne Hall Leloudis
Michele Foster Lewis
Elizabeth Beattie Lewis
Lynn E Locher
Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
Patricia Barlow Lowery
Pamela Kay Lowrance
Mary R Lynn
Bennie Jo Riley MacCaughelty
Susan Elaine Marshall
Jo-Anne Trowbridge Martin
John Angelo Martino
Elaine Crosbie Matheson
Beth Hewlett Mathews
Vandy Bass Matthews
Karen Magnuson Mauro
Sandra Thompson McCormick
Karen Lee McDonald
Why I Give
Rizza Hermosisima,
BSN ’86
You can't graduate from
Carolina’s School of
Nursing and not think
about it again. It makes
that much of an impact
on your life. I was first
approached about giving
back from a classmate
who encouraged me to
join her in supporting
the School of Nursing.
We now look for other
classmates’ names in
the annual Honor Roll
of Giving and try to
promote participation.
Our class has achieved
so many successes in the
field and we realize that
it all began with our
nursing education. The
School of Nursing gave
us the skills and confi-dence
we needed to
succeed, and we should
help others receive the
same opportunity for an
excellent education.
The SON was there for
us when we needed it,
and now it is time for
us to be there for the
School when it needs
our support.
PHOTO BY ANNE WEBB
Linda MacMorran McElveen
Gale Kircus McKee
Ann Maxwell McPhaul
Janet Opp McPherson
Diane Clark Meador
Janet Cheyfitz Meckler
Wendy Leigh Meyers
Mary McConville Mogan
Jane Kelly Monroe
Katherine Anne Moore
Linda Doub Morgan
Tina Marie Morris
Ilene Allen Morrison
Scarlott Kimball Mueller
Monica Miller Muldoon
Anne Lowe Murphy
Sara Burt Mursch
Betty Lee Snyder Mustafa
Sherrie Page Najarian
Brenda Marion Nevidjon
Delia Ruth Nickolaus
Alan Ray Novotny
Cynthia Johnson Oakes
Wanda Shelton Oakley
Willis Lathrop O'Brien
Susan Gatlin O'Dell
Brenda Joyce Olinger
Rebecca Dewees Olson
Sonda M Oppewal
Nancy Kiley Overstreet
Michele Morton Page
Mary H Palmer
Elizabeth Buchanan Paramore
Anne Whitaker Peedin
Kelly Rene Peek
Arlene Maher Pennella
Elizabeth Cox Perry
Mary Ann Rohrhurst Peter
Julius Caesar Phillips Jr
Linda Garner Phillips
Faye Dark Pickard
Laura Carlo Piver
Linda Grissom Polacheck
Ann Marie Polk
Patricia Heilig Poret
Gaye Williard Poteet
Georgia Marshall Pruitt
George I Rand
Ann Page Ransdell
Nancy Charles Rawl
James Thomas Raynor
Amanda Sue Rebbert
Sandra Darling Reed
Linda Trembath Reeder
Linda Fox Reeves
Susan Forney Reichman
Kelly Leigh Revels
Ronald Stephen Riggle
Patricia Cox Rogers
Leota Lovina Rolls
Shirley Spaugh Rosen
Douglas Mark Ross
Robyn Firestone Ross
Ann Elgin Van Meter Rudeen
Elizabeth Taylor Russell
R James Rutherford Jr
Judith Claire Rybka
Margarete Sandelowski
Stephen Terry Savitz
Ruth Graves Schwab
Mary Roberts Shapiro
Faith Junghahn Shaw
Susan Gale Sherman
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Lisa Higgins Shugoll
Bobbie Jo Lee Simpson
David John Smith
Nancy Noble Smith
Stephen Michael Smith
Mabeth Vanessa Smith
Karen Kellogg Soderstrom
Mary Victorine Spainhour
Carolyn Cook Spalding
Jennifer Dugan Spry
Phyllis Stadler-Lacki
Rachel Humphries Stevens
Jane Johnson Stine
Andrea Franks Strauss
Irene Powell Strickland
Catherine Neal Sugg
J Brinkley Sugg
Richard Anderson Sutton
Dana Snipes Svendsen
Thor Owen Svendsen
Sally Mozelle Taylor
Bobby Gene Taylor
Julie Smith Taylor
Esther Mae Tesh
Stephanie Roach Thacker
Deborah Thompson
Mary Jean Thorson
Arlene M Thurstone
Jane Brezinski Tomasi
Cynthia Calderwood Tomlin
Marshall Lee Turner Jr
Nancy Beasley Turner
Mary Vallier-Kaplan
Judith Flanders Vollmer
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
Deborah Kerens Wagner
Lois McCauley Wagner
Christine Mencini Waldrip
Linda Sitton Washburn
Carol Lynne Watters
Eugenia Hruslinski Weeks
Joanne Hogg Welborne
Susan Tant Whitaker
Marjene DeBardelaben White
Edward R Whitehurst Jr
Elaine Morrison Whitehurst
Donna Mease Wiggins
Jacqueline Lancaster Williams
Kathryn Prescott Williams
Marguerite Cosgrove Williams
Carol Cobb Williams
Kristie Lee Willis
Carole Norman Willmot
Sarah Simpson Wilson
Kimberly Collins Woodard
Glenda Sue Wooten
Carolyn Roberts Wright
Sarah Li-Wen Wu
Joyce McKeon Wynia
Marlene Stone Yates
Mabel Broadwell Yelvington
Aufricht Foundation
East Tennessee Anesthesia, Inc
FRIENDS
Louis Paul Abraham
Carol Ann Consolvo Adcock
Kenneth F Anderson Jr
Charles Leander Andrews Jr
Virginia Boardman
Anna Maxey Boelt
Claribel R Bouvier
Norman Brenneman
Jane Helen Brice
E C Bryson Jr
Mark Buckley
David Sewanee Bull
Rosemarie Bundy
F W Burks
Richard Earl Caddy Jr
Jamie Stephen Carrick
Robert Dorian Casey
Emily Greer Cawood
Allison Inscoe Chandler
Nancy Williams Cheek
Neal King Cheek
John T Childers
Franklin St Clair Clark, III
Tommy Wade Clayton
Anne Clemmer
Elizabeth B Cloutier
Gilles Cloutier
Larry B Cole
Bonnie Blue Colhoun
Mary C Cooper
Laurel Archer Copp
Victor Owen Cordle
Marsha S Correll
Graham Harvey Cosper
Robin Carol Crabtree
James Randolph Creech
Robert Walter Creed
James Charles Daugherty
Larry Steve Davidson
Robert Davis
Walter Royal Davis
Thomas Leroy Dawson
Locke DeBruyne
Kay R Demyan
Mollie Hood DeWalt
Caroline Hume Dilweg
Joseph Earl Dixon
Mildred H Dodge
Thorogood Melson Doughty Jr
Mary C Dowe
Margery Duffey
Kevin Robert Dungey
Jack Delbridge Dunn
Sandra Kathleen Evans
Sandra Hudson Felix
Rose Emmylou Ferris
Laurice Ferris
James Eugene Fogartie Jr
Joan Van Dyke Fouts
Frances Hill Fox
J Thomas Fox Jr
Elman Grady Frantz
Kathleen Walsh Free
Homa Jackson Freeman Jr
Matthew Roy Friedman
Nancy Scott Fuller
Monica Witterholt Fuller
W Erwin Fuller Jr
John E Furnas
Ann C Galiger
J Frank Gilreath
Sue Gainey Giles
Terry Scott Giles
John Christopher Glantz
David Martin Gorgonzola
Beverly Allen Greene
Elizabeth Dianne Greenhill
Robert Gerard Griffin
Jocelyn Stebbins Guice
Maria S Hailey
Erika Milnor Hale
Jeffrey Wayne Henson
Lois T Herring
James Rodney Hicks
G Melvin Hipps Sr
John Rufus Holt
Larry Honbarrier
James Sidney Hunter
Wyllis Eugene James Jr
Tori Richards Johnson
David Franklin Johnson
Francis G Jonas
Ronald Darr Keiger
Daniel Douglas Kester Jr
Nita Laca
Amy W Lamm
Betty H Landsberger
Judith Davis Lang
Robert Edmund Laport
Marc Byron Laster
Nancy Raquel Lee
Benjamin James Lee
Barbara Dascombe Lee
Annmarie Meredith Lee
James Alonza Leggette Jr
Thomas Henry Lineberger
William Littlejohn
Sophia P Livas
Linda Beth Logsdon
James Monroe Long
Edward Lenoir Lowdermilk
Hallie Maiden
John Jacob Marks
John Angelo Martino
Tricia Lynn Martino
Bobby Kenneth McCullen Jr
Tamara Spence McLoughlin
Michael Henry Merritt
Polly H. Miller
Jennifer Marie Miller
Mary McConville Mogan
W Paul Monroe
Merry-K Moos
James Hunter Morgan
John Stanley Newsome
Gregory Allen Neyhart
Thomas Lloyd Norris Jr
S Dale Odom Jr
William Conally Owen
Michele Morton Page
Hilda Hine Patterson
John Smith Patterson
Patricia E Pawlik
Tommy Clayton Peele
E Magnus Persmark
Mary Ann Rohrhurst Peter
Julius Caesar Phillips Jr
Philip Wade Ponder
J Craig Quick
Kenneth Hardy Rabin
James Thomas Raynor
John Joseph Reardon
T Justin Renegar
Kelly Leigh Revels
R Timothy Rice
Lou Etta K Roberts
D Thomas Roberts Jr
C Edward Robinson
Judy Livingstone Robinson
Mark Graham Rodin
Douglas Mark Ross
R James Rutherford Jr
Barbara C Rynerson
Todd Rutledge Sander
Stephen Terry Savitz
Courtney Wells Sewell
Lindsay Fodrie Sewell
Shannon Collins Seymour
Sonda Hawley Shank
Deirdre A Shoffner
Blaine C Short
Mark Smith
Gloria Faison Smith
David John Smith
Stephen Michael Smith
Mark Kelly Smotherman
Helen Easter Snow
Ellen Joan Solomon
Kelly Oliver Spann
Stanley M Spinola
Thomas Patrick Stephenson
Ed Starnes Jr
Alan Stowe
Nancy R Strickland
Catherine Neal Sugg
Thor Owen Svendsen
Kim Webb Talbert
Bobby Gene Taylor
Hunter Marshall Teske
Patrick E Tiernan
Arrel D Toews
Mark Tommerdahl
Marshall Lee Turner Jr
Helen W Umphlet
Douglas Paul Utter
Charles Mahlon Vollmer
Carol Ward
David Russell Ward
Martha Szegda Ward
Edgar Davis Warren
Bailey D Webb
Edward R Whitehurst Jr
Marian Davis Whiteside
Gerald A Williams
John Bernhardt Wilson Jr
Robert Gale Wilson Jr
Amy Ervin Winecoff
William Francis Wolcott III
George I Woodall Jr
Mark Edward Woodruff
Joyce C Young
Burlington Industries Foundation
Waddell Foundation
Rex Healthcare
Estate of Mary P Speight
Carl S Swisher Foundation, Inc
Novant Health, Inc
Thomas Henry Wilson & Family
Foundation
Diocese of East Carolina Bishop’s Disc
East Tennessee Anesthesia, Inc
Alpha Alpha Chapter Sigma Theta
Tau, Inc
Aufricht Foundation
NC Housing Finance Agency Fund
Univ Health Systems of Eastern
Carolina
Golden LEAF, Inc
FACULTY AND STAFF
Bonnie Ford Angel
Janet H Blue
Susan H Brunssen
M Carolyn Cooper
Linda R Cronenwett
JoAnn B Dalton
Gayle Tart Davis
Leslie Louise Davis
Janna L Dieckmann
Molly Dougherty
Beverly Ferreiro
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Beverly Brown Foster
Sandra Gail Funk
Barbara B Germino
Joanne Summey Harrell
Why I Give
Jo-Anne Trowbridge
Martin, BSN ’69
It has been said, “Give
and you shall receive.”
The UNC School of
Nursing provided the
framework and founda-tion
for me to become a
professional caregiver,
empowering me to
achieve my career
goals as a US Navy
nurse as well as to
develop the confidence
to meet many other life
challenges. Through
supporting the School
of Nursing, the joy of
seeing the enthusiastic
young men and women
pursue their nursing
careers is the best of
all “thank you’s.” It is
exhilarating to have the
opportunity to encour-age
and support these
students in fulfilling their
dreams through quality
nursing education.
PHOTO BY IMAGES BY DWAYNE
Norma Hawthorne
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Martha Lillian Henderson
Jane S Kaufman
Gerry King, In Memory Of
Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk
Mary R Lynn
Margaret S Miles
Maggie Miller
Katherine A Moore
Virginia J Neelon
Sonda M Oppewal
Mary H Palmer
Susan Foley Pierce
Richard W Redman
Margarete Sandelowski
Susan W Short
Anne H Skelly
Deborah Thompson
James Edward Vickers
Julee Briscoe Waldrop
Wanda E Wazenegger
Anne Aldridge Webb
Elizabeth K Woodard
1955
BSN
Donna Blair Booe
Joy Smith Burton
Gwenlyn Huss Butler
Martha Yount Cline
Winnie Williams Cotton
Bette Leon Davis
Sara Blaylock Flynn
Patsy Colvard Johnson
Geraldine Snider Laport
Mary Anderson Leggette
Janet Merritt Littlejohn
Sally Winn Nicholson
Gloria Huss Peele
Ramelle Hylton Starnes
Louise Norwood Thomas
Arlene M Thurstone
1956
BSN
Evelyn Farmer Alexander
Natalie Salter Baggett
Sally Smith Baldwin
Katherine Widman Carter
Lee McCarter Cranford
Elizabeth Hamilton Darden
Landon Lewis Fox
Peggy Needham Heinsohn
Jessie Carraway Heizer
Emily Robeson Hubbard
Carolyn White London
Jane Kelly Monroe
Jane Sox Monroe
Jane Snyder Norris
Billie Dobbs Rogers
Ruth Corwin Whitman
Geneva File Williams
1957
BSN
Ruth Holmes Benedict
Mary Lou Norwood Booth
Mary Ann Keeter Caston
Shirley Lee Guenthner
Anne Glenn Johnson
Martha Lentz Waters
Sara Burt Mursch
Ann Page Ransdell
Margaret Davis Reed
Barbara Hedberg Self
Rachel Humphries Stevens
MSN
Audrey Joyce Booth
1958
BSN
Cloydia Carstarphen Dixon
Lucy Taylor Fort
Geraldine Y Haynes
Gail G Hudson
Diane Roane Lasley
Marjorie Staub Mosher
Sally Price Ormand
Norma Cupp Pitzer
Nancy Charles Rawl
Billie Williams Routh
Elizabeth Sumner Sanders
Nancy Noble Smith
Mary Williams Stroupe
Kathryn Jones Walsh
Carolyn Roberts Wright
1959
BSN
Alvene Williams Buckley
Shirley Hamrick Byrd
Diane Snakenburg Gordon
Jo Ann Sowers Mason
Martha Oliver Meetre
Beverly Heaton Miller
Faye Dark Pickard
Patricia Kline Robertson
Mary Helen Shelburne Watkins
1960
BSN
Margaret Evans Adams
Harriette Zimmerman Beaven
Claudia Barnes Deese
Elizabeth Johnson Downey
Sara Elizabeth Garvin
Opal Shepard Hipps
Anita Whitener Hoffler
Catherine Carden Long
Sandra Roberts Montgomery
Jean Sutherland Pridgen
Sandra Darling Reed
Judith Jones Southerland
Roberta Chapin White
MSN
Ruby Gilbert Barnes
Barbara Williams Madden
Ruth Graves Schwab
Rachel Humphries Stevens
Jacqueline Joann Taylor
1961
BSN
E Elaine Curtis
Nancy Robison Dickinson
Carolyn Mayo Holloway
Ann Linville Jessup
Alice F Keiger
Linda Ann Lewis
Karen Magnuson Mauro
Margaret Thompson McCain
Carolyn Nifong Morgan
Keeter Baggett Pope
Alice Kent Roye
Mary Brock Slaughter
Diana Lea Sowards
Patricia Long Vaughan
Mabel Broadwell Yelvington
1962
BSN
Paula Kirby Benway
Mary Alice Blevins
Lillian Ward Bryant
Jane Huber Clark
Elsie Deana Cross
Beverly Desmond Davis
Ann Davisson
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Shirley Snyder Frantz
Undine Caudle Garner
Mary Harrison Hall
Mae Van Hiatt
Mary Boatwright Howie
Nancy Wills Hudock
Sally Horton Jones
Patricia Ann Hunter Key
Celeste Leffingwell Loftin
Elizabeth Chambers Payne
Patricia Heilig Poret
Ann Bennett Propert
Linda Trembath Reeder
Esther Mae Tesh
MSN
Martha Clyde Davis
1963
BSN
Elaine Gettman Bourdeaux
Katharine Pickrell Bryson
Roberta Brown Feather
Barbara Caldwell Fletcher
Elizabeth Lusk Gregg
Mary Shaw Hambright
Mary Pleasants Hogg
Sylvia Vincent Jackson
Carol Elledge Koontz
Lynn E Locher
Patricia Barlow Lowery
Carolyn Sue Morris
Laura Hawes Morrison
Linda Hutchins Myrick
Arlene Maher Pennella
Martha Tate Roberts
Margaret Sutton Wade
Eleanor Kay Weeks
Eugenia Hruslinski Weeks
Joanne Hogg Welborne
1964
BSN
Barbara Poag Brown
Sharon W Cervenak
Carolyn Mitchell Elgin
Frances Booth Hart
Bonnie Keaton Hensley
Patricia Whitley Hudson
Beverley Haynes Johnson
Carolyn Pugh Keil
Jean Burley Moore
Margie Mayo Oldham
Laura Carlo Piver
Gaye Williard Poteet
Mary Coleman Rose
Mary Roberts Shapiro
Lois McCauley Wagner
Linda Sitton Washburn
Betty May Swecker Yoe
MSN
Marcia Singletary Brooks
Opal Shepard Hipps
1965
BSN
Marianne Cooke Bell
Nancy Rieman Caldwell
Sharon Kennedy Casey
Karen Hopkins Coley-Harrison
Dorothy Isom Daniel
Vercie Massengill Eller
Linda Barnes Henderson
Jo Ann Zaron Hiti
Anne Alphin Hobson
Carole Ridgeway Hunter
Ann Maxwell McPhaul
Constance Newnam Parker
Barbara Easkold Pringle
Margaret Weidel Sprott
Nancy Beasley Turner
Elaine Adams Underwood
Judith Flanders Vollmer
MSN
Katherine Camilla Bobbitt
Roberta Brown Feather
Anne Hopkins Fishel
Lucy Taylor Fort
Ellen May Stout
1966
BSN
Nancy Herter Apmann
Carole O'Brient Bordelon
Elizabeth Scovil Carlo
Marie Phillips Cloney-Williams
Mary Howard Dunn
Martha Zink Gibson
Anne Barbee Houston
Jo Anne Viverette Johnson
Kay Goodman McMullan
Leith Merrow Mullaly
Anne Whitaker Peedin
Elizabeth Cox Perry
Linda Fox Reeves
Suzanne Bennett Reilly
Janice Fox Sands
Stella Gilmore Taylor
Sharon Ranson Thompson
Elaine Morrison Whitehurst
Rebecca Story Wilson
Paula Anne Yelverton
MSN
Susan Dewey Sverha
1967
BSN
Prentiss Anne Allen
Elena Codispoti Aseltine
Anne Elizabeth Belcher
Rene Clark
Nancy Rankin Crutchfield
Barbara Jo Lorek Foley
Mary Bowsher Friedman
Olivia Womble Griffin
Patricia Dodson Hayes
Cheryl Vaughn Howe
Patricia Humphrey-Kloes
Marilyn Beaver Hutcheson
Rebecca Dawsey Johnson
Toni Cline Kenerly
Judy Heller Knauer
Elizabeth Beattie Lewis
Carolyn Mitchell Martin
Gale Kircus McKee
Ilene Allen Morrison
Genevia Sanderson Mozolak
Carolyn Buck Pearson
Georgia Marshall Pruitt
Margaret Ferguson Raynor
Shirley Spaugh Rosen
Susan Willey Spalt
Nancy Carr Sumner
Suzanne Lewis Tonski
Carole Norman Willmot
1968
BSN
Judith Reavis Beauchamp
Lois Greenfield Boyles
Elizabeth Margaret Carr
Linda Robinson Cloninger
Carolyn Taylor Cresimore
Cornelia Beck Dewees
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Joan Byrum McCormick
Susanne Smith Newton
Julia Knott Prasse
Miriam Munden Quick
Joan Frances Reinhardt
Johana Renfro Roberts
Elizabeth Pugh Summey
Linda Hamlin Titus
Marjene DeBardelaben White
MSN
Faye Dark Pickard
1969
BSN
Beverly Neal Barnette
Sarah Smith Carey
Linda Kibler Cockrell
Gayle Tart Davis
Ruth Kaemmerlen Efird
Judith Van Dyke Egg
Dorothy Mosley Ellmore
Patsy Ruth Farlow
Judith Rogers Gibson
Marcia Somers Gore
Judith Hoskins Haupt
Susan Stallings Jones
Jane Carey Karpick
Barbara Dunn Legler
Margaret Riggan Light
Jo-Anne Trowbridge Martin
Brenda Jarrett Matthews
Rebecca Greene Pitts
Eddie Boykin Pope
Susan Forney Reichman
Judith Claire Rybka
Jennifer Carr Savitz
Nancy Nicks Stephenson
Betty Blankenship Thornton
Cynthia Calderwood Tomlin
Sally Sayre Weinrich
Donna Mease Wiggins
Carol Cobb Williams
Jo Lentz Williams
MSN
Doris Haase Dixon
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
Why I Give
John and Hilda
Patterson
We have an avid love
for Carolina and a real
desire to help nursing
students. Nursing roots
run deep in our family—
two of our daughters
are alumnae of the
School of Nursing, I am a
nurse [Hilda] and John’s
mother was a nurse.
We are proud of our
own nursing tradition
and want to share it
with others, so we feel
it is a great privilege to
assist a student who is
working to become a
nurse. Having Carolina
nurses in our family
makes it an even bigger
joy to support future
Carolina nurses and
continue the tradition
of excellence.
PHOTO COURTESY OF HILDA PATTERSON
Jane Mitchell Hayward
Leota Lovina Rolls
1970
BSN
Deborah Dewees Baughn
Annette Beam
Nancy Gibbes Chapman
Deborah Wyndham Cody
Joyce Schilke Cohen
Allene Fuller Cooley
Deborah Lawrence Delafield
Linda Page Delbridge
Lynda Law Harrison
Christine Aufricht Heyse
Kathryn Minton Holliday
Shirley Privette Hunter
Lucy Thomas Kindsvatter
Virginia Lane
Jayne Yates Lutz
Alene M Mercer
Barbara Ann Nettles-Carlson
Phyllis Walker Newman
Barbara Blackwood Picornell
Linda Grissom Polacheck
Delia McKeithan Ripley
Patricia Cox Rogers
Susan Rundell
Judythe Errico Upjohn
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
P Kay Wagoner
MSN
JoAnn Foust Cardarella
Elizabeth Scovil Carlo
Marjorie Huitt Hawkins
Patsy Littlejohn Hawkins
Gwendolyn Dorminey Sherwood
Janet Askew Sipple
1971
BSN
Nancy Nelson Caddy
Lynn Grier Coleman
Judith Wilson DiCostanzo
Judith Barnes Gardiner
Jeanne Lilly Griswold
Kerry Allen Hensley
Sandra Baughn Jelovsek
Charlene Blake Knapp
Sylvia Monteith Ledford
Elizabeth Moate Robinson
Marian Crane Sharpe
Deborah Thompson
Mary Vallier-Kaplan
Carole Barrow Warren
1972
BSN
Ann Everhart Bailey
Linda Santorum Byers
Martha Robbins Sadler Dungey
Beverly Tedder Essick
Virginia Elaine Fox
Nina Whitaker Hackney
Patricia Pittman Hotz
Mary Ann Osborne Kerr
Anne Lowe Murphy
Lynne Ann Oland
Christa Parks Roisen
MSN
Leigh Andrews
Alla Traber Campbell
Gayle Tart Davis
Laura Hawes Morrison
Carol Lynne Watters
1973
BSN
Dana Sue Baldwin
Ann Davis Brown
Anne Smith Cole
Cynthia Lee Earthman
Teresa Weaver Foster
Nancy Barrett Freeman
Margaret Wagoner Gilliam
Betty Jean Haddock
Elizabeth Watters Hopper
Jolynn Edwards Hurwitz
Judith Hartsfield Iannuzzi
Maryann Patterson Ingersoll
Carolyn Morgan Inman
Debra Gay Kiser
Colleen Hamilton Lee
Patricia Shaffer Lewis
Janet Opp McPherson
Linda Moon Miller
Linda Doub Morgan
Rosemary Holmes Niles
Holly Dearstyne Norwood
Wanda Shelton Oakley
Catherine Cloaninger Perry
Ona Mercer Pickens
Ann Marie Polk
George I Rand
Pamela Jo Sorce
Kathryn Temple Turner
Suzanne Limparis Ward
Polly Ryan Wheless
MSN
Anna Tansey Bridgman
Maureen Callahan
Deborah Wyndham Cody
Cynthia Mary Freund
Catherine Dzniblinski Harvey
Susan Stuart Harvey
Barbara Reed Hawkins
Rhudine Monroe James
Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal
Linda Ann Lewis
Rebecca Greene Pitts
1974
BSN
Patrica Joyner Babcock
Paula Ridenhour Barringer
Suzanne Lindsay Burge
Gladess Hudspeth Crisp
Nancy Johnson Dewhirst
Carol Zimmerman Garrison
Cathy McGonigle Hamill
Jacqueline W Hermans
Deborah Powers Hoy
Sue Moore James
Beverly Smith Johnson
Jane Mayes Link
Bennie Jo Riley MacCaughelty
Bonita Fleming MacLeod
Julia McGlamery Marshall
Brenda Ray Martin
Wendelin Jones McBride
Laura Britton Michael
Willis Lathrop O'Brien
Rebecca Dewees Olson
Judith Haubenreiser Osborn
Debra Corn Patterson
Constance Hathaway Pendergrass
Sara Rollins Ramsey
Laura McLeod Sorrell
Brenda Gail Summers
Patsy Schupper Theobald
Joan David White
Kathryn Payne Wueste
MSN
Linda Lindsey Davis
Nancy Braddock Davis
Laureen Sue Froimson
Lenner Pender Jefferies
Sandra Baughn Jelovsek
Nancy Siegel Katich
Margaret Riggan Light
Revauda Saunders Lurey
Rebecca Jean Patterson
Judy Kay Farmer Vipperman
Rebecca Story Wilson
1975
BSN
Jean Gail Allen
Marye Cornelia Barden
Catherine Crane Bouboulis
Martha Hains Bramlett
Sandra Hardy Bryson
Vickie Garrett Byler
Preston Noe Comeaux III
Elizabeth Collins Earle
Catherine Foltz Howes
Iris Clapp Hutcheson
Ann Cox Hutchins
Peggy Cabe Kuppers
Sharon Estelle Lock
Kathleen Honer Marshall
Sharon Caston McDow
Diane Shaffer Merritt
Evelyn Rose Paul
Carol Elizabeth Powell
Colleen Cullen Powers
Sally Tapp Williford
MSN
Annette Beam
Elizabeth Johnson Burkett
Betty Jean Haddock
Nancy Meyer Holloway
Jann Budde Logsdon
Susan Foley Pierce
Patricia Cox Rogers
Judith Jones Southerland
Virginia Mary Spaulding
Deborah Thompson
1976
BSN
Karla Susan Alwood
Frances Mervin Andringa
Bonita Craft Aycock
Elizabeth McKinney Bailey
Donna Davis Bost
Debra Huffman Brandon
Kathi Roberts Byrne
Mary Redfearn Creed
Patricia Ann Creed
Deborah Landis Creedy
Mary Lou Caviness Faucette
Cristin Council Flynt
Deborah Webb Frye
Cynthia Darlyn Garrett
Marsha Newton Golombik
C Wayne Hamm
Katherine Farrar Herr
Rachael Brugh Holmes
Arnia Floyd Howard
Sue Baker Isaac
Pamela Ellis Jameson
Christine Earle Jones
Jane Fraley Kodack
Drew Davis Malcolm
Ann Robinson Mandel
Jimmie Drennan McCamic
Barbara Eddinger McNeill
Elaine Snell Mervin
Elizabeth Holcombe Miller
Ann Elizabeth Morrow
Sue Shivar Morrow
Mary Spencer Palmer
Linda Garner Phillips
Linda Fisher Poss
Lyle Byron Snider
Mary Victorine Spainhour
Carolyn Yarborough Walker
Joyce McKeon Wynia
MSN
Elizabeth Margaret Carr
Virginia Elaine Fox
Linda Joyce Cade Haber
Sue Greenwood Head
Delores McCullough Maxwell
Susan Wells Taylor
Gwendolyn Hightower
Waddell-Schultz
1977
BSN
Susan G Baker
Cynthia Wimberley Brashear
Patricia Packard Conner
Denise Taylor Darden
Johanna Ruth Dewees
Pamela Sobol Erekson
Peggy Carden Frankenstein
Leigh Watson Garmhausen
Natalie Cumston Gray
Linda Allen Hammett
Pamela Reeder Harsant
Elaine Merchant Jeffcoat
Rene Hajjar Jones
Patricia Lyons Kiefer
Linda Sherman Kimel
Catherine Stinson King
Dianne Hall Leloudis
Susan Perry Lineberry
Gail Liles Medlin
Scarlott Kimball Mueller
Yvonne Boies Nicopoulos
Susan Gatlin O'Dell
Helen Krick Poole
David Roger Shoemaker
Judy Beamer Smith
Mabeth Vanessa Smith
Karen Kellogg Soderstrom
Cynthia Mabe Solomon
Lynn Peacock Spaw
Jane Johnson Stine
Laura Conn Stout
Marti Lynn Todd
Mary O'Fallon Vinzani
MSN
Susan Waldrop Donckers
Emily Scovil Eklund
Dorothy Purser Jenkins
Marianne Frances Marlo
Margaret Magdalene Miller
Patty Sue Sanders
Diane Gracy Vester
Louise Elsner Watts
1978
BSN
Caswell Smith Arnold
Martha Schaub Bordeaux
Ann King Cashion
Susan Lesniak Clark
Deborah Smith Ellis
Carol Ann McGonigle Fogartie
Rachel Harper Fulp
Jane King Fulton
Mary Layne Shine Gregg
Catherine Freeman Halligan
Leigh Mewborn Hardy
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Lois Gore Kessler
Jane Ranson Little
Anganette McBryde
Betty Womble Michal
Katherine Anne Moore
Betty Lee Snyder Mustafa
John Slate Oldham
Paula Byrd Reardon
Robin Elaine Remsburg
Nancy Brand Saulino
Carol Harbage Schroeder
Elizabeth Ann Sheely
Sally Mozelle Taylor
Jean Frier Therrien
Carol Rhodes Warden
Toni Spicer Wild
Jacqueline Lancaster Williams
Ann M Williamson
Stephanie Sears Yates
Gina Lawson Young
MSN
Dana Sue Baldwin
Juliet McGuire Beckwith
Harriet Walker Buss
Margaret Gorely Bye
Marilyn McSherry Earle
Christine Bender Ackiss Eller
Pamela Gilliam Lusk
Marie Lee Muskovin
Brenda Marion Nevidjon
Sandra Louise Siehl
Lenore Wagner Smith
P Kay Wagoner
1979
BSN
Bonnie Ford Angel
Janet Boggs Arthurs
Beverly Harrell Barnett
Cheryl Banks Batchelor
Syvil Summers Burke
Darise Daves Caldwell
Janet Wolfe Craft
Mary Susan Curtas
Shotsy Charlotte Faust
Sandra Sleeman Franklin
Mary Ann Yenc Gaster
Jacqueline Lytle Gonzalez
Millicent Hecht Hair
Carol Leigh Hile
Janice Joyce Hoffman
Kathleen Kilbey Hope
Judith Carol Hunter
Laura Fraser Irvin
Kina Walker Jones
Mary Haxton Kinard
Why I Give
Susan Gatlin O'Dell,
BSN ’77, MSN ’95
It is important to me
to be able to have
enough nurses to take
care of our patients.
As our population ages
and we have people
relocating to North
Carolina, we expect to
have more needs and
fewer nurses. There is no
way to keep up without
adding space to our
nursing schools. Our
patients depend upon
and benefit from our
nurses' care, regardless
of their diagnosis. When
I invest in the School of
Nursing, I am helping
in a broader way than
picking one particular
type of patient or illness.
Marissa Fieselman Laster
Jennifer Elesha Manning
Vandy Bass Matthews
Nancy Hudgins Morrow
Deborah Carol Oliver
Sue E Parrish
Kathryn King Perkinson
Robyn Firestone Ross
Jean Cotten Schnaak
Paula Gentry Siegel
Patricia Reilly Skinner
Carolyn Sue Underwood
Leslie Latta Verner
Marianne Bab Vidal
Cynthia Perry Waddell
Pamela Bowling Watson
Mary Ellen Wehrle Woiler
Kimberly Collins Woodard
MSN
Judith Haubenreiser Osborn
Marian Dorsey Willard
Diane Davila Willson
1980
BSN
Lisa Mock Allen
Marie Crooke Bossert
Marian White Byerly
Lucy Ross Clair
Virginia Van Velsor Connett
Rebecca Eggen Dux
Doris McFadyen Fritts
Amanda Lynn Greene
Melody Slaughter Heffline
Leslie Carolyn Hicks
David Talmadge Hinson
Margaret Musgrave Hinson
Beth Harris Jaekle
Susan Page Kane
Sherry Jean Kelly
Virginia Turner Kramer
Donna Winston Laney
Martha Hedrick McCarthy
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Carolyn Reece Nichols
Cynthia Johnson Oakes
Kay Overcash-Jenkins
Nancy Kiley Overstreet
Elizabeth Norwood Peele
Sandra Durham Pulliam
Carolyn Cook Spalding
Katherine Patterson Tommerdahl
Beverly Lynn Wagner
Barbara Langan Wefing
MSN
Sandra Bradley Baden
Carolyn Veronica Billings
Phyllis Brooks Carouthers
Lynn Grier Coleman
Jean Marie Raue Larson
Janet Cheyfitz Meckler
Ann Mabe Newman
Angel Mariano Vasquez
1981
BSN
Linda Holt Anderson
Beth Perry Black
Anna Watson Blair
Beth Herring Chadwick
Ruth Ellen Cole
Gwen Chriscoe Dodson
Susan Adams Doughton
Myra Auman Gebbie
Joan Williams Grady
Lucy Ligon Heffelfinger
Bennett Houston
Donna Renee Jarvis
Jacqueline Dean Jennings
Denise Farlow Jones
Jodi Marlene Lavin-Tompkins
Winnie Smith Leiendecker
Pamela Kay Lowrance
Annette Weaver Mason
Beth Hewlett Mathews
Barbareta Welch McGill
Kathryn Suzanne Miller
Monica Miller Muldoon
Lynne Jernigan Owen
Jennifer Castelloe Riker
Elizabeth Taylor Russell
Kathy S Shields
E Anne Shortliffe
Kendace Felgar Stagg
Kim Motsinger Stanley
Annette Rountree Thompson
Virginia Ne Smith Walton
Marguerite Cosgrove Williams
Paulette Lewis Williams
MSN
Debra Huffman Brandon
Linda Brewer Ellington
Karen Landolina Kanoy
Kathleen Poage Knol
Jane Randall
Marilee Schmelzer
Brenda Gail Summers
1982
BSN
Wanda Mayo Adams
Hortense Redd Britt
Laurie Elmore Cain
Kimberly Elizabeth Carr
Mary Margaret Cushman
Carolyn Christine Dew
Julia Stout Dyer
Janese Hart Frantz
Laura Custer Galloway
Sharon Speer Gentry
Jacqueline Haugh Harris
Reena Grigg Hathcock
Ruth Setzer Hunt
Frances Morgan Irby
Miriam Perrou Jolly
Anne-Marie Stovall Jones
Linda Deese Jones
Kathy Lynne Joyce
Leslie Ellis Kieffer
Elizabeth Rogers Kinsey
Laurie Denise Thompkins Moore
Diane Oakley
Caroline Amelia Pope
Rhea S Redmond
Lee Watson Rice
Ann Elgin Van Meter Rudeen
Joan Von Lehmden Senter
Debra Farlow Surratt
Jeanine Hartgrove Ulsenheimer
Diane Wendelken-Johnston
Glenda Sue Wooten
Edith Juanita Wright
Linda Thompson Young
MSN
Mary Lober Aquilino
Patricia Rouisse Ballentine
Marilyn Jane Chapman
Josephine Altieri Glos
Carol Eiler Glover
Leah Gabriel Weidemoyer
1983
BSN
Maureen Daly Abraham
James Lewis Adams
Kathleen Murphy Baum
Mary Neilson Bishop
Anderson Fisher Black
Lisa Ray Boland
Linda Carol Bryant
Melanie Gayle Bunn
Robert Contino
Deedee Baker Cromer
Mary Hicks Cunningham
Melrose Whitfield Fisher
Mary Yonts Harpster
Alma Marie Holley
Charlene Honeycutt
Kelly Causby Isenhour
Kim Adams Johnson
Mary House Kester
Marie Patterson Klein
Brenda Stevens Boyd Macarages
Jean Hix McDonald
Jana Green Newsome
Elizabeth Robertson Osbahr
Annette Ivey Peery
Janet Stephens Pelley
Deborah Lewis Reiman
Lisa Higgins Shugoll
Margaret Ham Sturdivant
Julie Smith Taylor
MSN
Jo Ann Harrelson Adams
Mary Capehart Hulbert
Brigid Mary Riordan
1984
BSN
Patricia Gordon Albright
Anita Gaston Boland
Brian Dean Bombardier
Dorothy Peterson Burchall
Emily Betts Cox
Tamara Harper Crews
Gary Douglas Crotty
Janet Peele Crumpler
Sandra Shaw Davidson
Rebecca Atkins Dodson
Brenda Lovvorn Featherstone
Judith Walker Gentile
Karen Schillinger Gorgonzola
Alice Cordel Griffin
Beth Patten Griffin
Nancy Walters Harman
Jan Moses Hedgepeth
Tammi Edmundson Holland
Alisa Jung
Diane Ely Littlefield
Lauren Bacon Martin
Martha Legare Mercer
Lori Ann Nash
Elizabeth Emily Ricks
Diane Fites Schifter
Leslie McDonough Sharpe
Sharon Caudle Smotherman
Susan Tant Whitaker
Sarah Simpson Wilson
MSN
Rosemary Cathleen Bootes
Lynn Brittian
Kerry Dominick
Sandra Hines Glantz
Dianne Hall Leloudis
Laura Pole
Elizabeth Larcom Posey
Deanne Erickson Printon
1985
BSN
Leigh Sharp Ammons
Theresa Stackpoole Andrews
Linda Bertsch Barber
Gloria Monkoski Boudreau
Heather Kelly Bryan
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Margaret Lynn Campbell
Mary Tuck Carter
Leslie Louise Davis
Rhonda Blackwood Dear
Pamela Watts Garty
M Leslie Gaynor
Kimberly McAlister Hamilton
Nancy Lou Keaton
Cynthia Cumbo Klaess
Julie Moorefield Knock
Patty Phillips Ledwell
Elizabeth Youngblood McKeon
Johanna Norman
Gaye Oxendine Olson
Ann Boggs Parker
Susan Berdene Reed
Heather Domville Scarff
Kay Satterfield Sharpe
Marianne Kankowski Spinola
Jennifer Dugan Spry
Joan Rosalind Vinson
MSN
Robert Contino
Cynthia Darlyn Garrett
Beth Harris Jaekle
Camille Eckerd Lambe
Sharon Estelle Lock
Diane Clark Meador
1986
BSN
Kena Rae Blackwelder
Susan Shay Brack
Flora Wood Davis
Jane A Frye
Dawn Marie Garcia
Rizza Duterte Hermosisima
Hilda Cates Holloway
Susan Carlene Houck
Tessa Colville Kankelfritz
Janice Jones Long
Brenda Irene Nielsen
Phyllis Akin Remke
Anne Boduch Serody
Pamela Anne Stewart
Jane Peace Thielman
Kimberly Ferguson Wiggins
Laurie Kay Zone-Smith
MSN
Tony Dean Cook
Linda Garner Phillips
Irene Ann Tessaro
Virginia Ne Smith Walton
1987
BSN
Ann Louise Thompson Armstrong
Jennifer Byrd Borton
Karla Jean Brown
Vonda Mendenhall Brown
Constance Lee Carroll
Deborah Hamlett Chestnutt
Victoria Pilar Falcon-Vinke
Susan Barton George
Patricia Beatty Goodwin
Sonya Denise Henderson
Elizabeth Williams Henson
Renee Hardy Hirniak
Glenda Marett Jeffries
Lynda Williams Lewis
Mildred Robinson Lyon
Kristina Ramthun MacPherson
Janet Allen Marable
Tammy Reavis Marshall
Diana Nielsen Moore
Maureen Smith Nixon
Dorothy R Smith
Kimberly Blake Sumrell
Vangela Royal Swofford
Allyson Page Utter
MSN
Deborah Kaye Campbell Betts
Ellen Ahern Buchanan
Gary Douglas Crotty
Myra Dennis Landmesser
Sherrie Bragg Lessans
Barbareta Welch McGill
Kim Sue Shaw
Patricia Witt Spegman
Elizabeth Knowles Woodard
1988
BSN
Laurie G Armstrong
Mary Ruth Boshkoff
Robin Sharp Caddell
Melissa Lewis Daniels
Mary Warner Gennett
Locksley Gardner Henage
Joyce Breeden Johnson
Kendra Argo Kruse
Crystal Credle Maia
Elaine Crosbie Matheson
Teresa Blackwell Myers
Patricia O'Keefe Odell
Elizabeth Buchanan Paramore
Jeanelle Starling Price
Cathy Sauls Robinson
Mary Wilson Shaw
Andrea Franks Strauss
Charlena Stroud
Vera Walker Tate
Christine Mencini Waldrip
MSN
Stewart Michael Bond
Elizabeth Binder Gray
Amanda Lynn Greene
Nina Whitaker Hackney
Sarah Anne Kooienga
Mary Query Welch
1989
BSN
Kelley Wayco Barney
Lucinda Ohlwine Bauling
Melanie McLean Bradshaw
Denise Ray Clark
Kimberly Wilder Couch
Joyce Lynn DeLancey
Deborah Faye Flowers
Patricia Thieman Hallman
Amy Moorhead Hardy
Robert Franklin Jessup
THE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
Why I Give
Carolyn Underwood,
BSN ’79
When I graduated from
the School of Nursing
almost 25 years ago, I
had no idea of the
impact that my time
there would have on the
rest of my life. On a
recent visit, I noticed
that the facilities have
changed little since my
Carrington Hall days.
Meanwhile, the need
to educate a growing
number of nurses to
fulfill the needs of those
in our state and around
the world has grown
dramatically. The sophis-tication
of the science of
health care has changed
significantly, and this
requires that the School
have the resources to
stay abreast of these
changes. I feel that the
new facility for the
School of Nursing is way
past due and I am com-mitted
to doing every-thing
I can to see the
new building become a
reality.
Roxanne Coleman Jones
Susan Jordison Jones
Patricia Ann Mason
Catherine Paschall McCluskey
Karen Lee McDonald
Delia Ruth Nickolaus
Karen Casey Packey
Anita Vann Royal
MSN
Wendy Waara Bierwirth
Leslie Louise Davis
Steven David Forst
Deborah Coates Parce
Joyce Ann Smith
1990
BSN
Maria Daneen Bernhardt
Dianah Cockman Bradshaw
Daria L Campbell
Candice Pike Clark
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Ellen Hampton Davis
John Andrew Davis
Richmond Lee Griner II
Karen M Horrell
Carol Moeller
Judy McNeill Page
Elizabeth Marriott Prata
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Kathy Hendrix Settle
Phyllis Stadler-Lacki
Stephanie Roach Thacker
Linda S Thomas
Sara Anderson Thompson
Amy Smith Turner
MSN
Beth Perry Black
Martha Schaub Bordeaux
Deborah Heffley Brooks
Vickie Garrett Byler
Ellen Hart Doyle
Katherine Anne Moore
Susan Berdene Reed
Nailah Amal Siddique
Melody Ann Watral
Elizabeth McManus Watson
1991
BSN
Julie Wood Barney
Liliana Donoso Berman
Althea Williams Capps
Derek Clarkston Chrisco
R Michelle Ekanayake-Lin
Janice Lynn Eyer
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Dene Raisner Hogge
Sherrie Page Najarian
Carol Hesting Odom
Amanda Sue Rebbert
Dana Snipes Svendsen
Ashley Lefler Wilson
Vanessa Harrell Yencha
MSN
Jennifer Byrd Borton
Diane Ely Littlefield
1992
BSN
Lisa Weaver Bull
Lisa Barnette Callanan
Veronica Strasser Douglas
Cheryl Moseley Gibson
Dawn Logue Hafer
Michele Foster Lewis
Susan Smith Moorman
Jennifer Rene Shoaf
Shonda Michele Stacey
Stephanie LeAnne Stephens
Kathryn Prescott Williams
Carol Hargett Wilson
Diane Marie Yorke
MSN
Elizabeth Wainio Deaton
Sally Walter Gillooly
Mary Louise Jackson
Katherine Sawyer Mann
Ann Shirley Moore
Brenda Irene Nielsen
Diane Marie Schadewald
Jane Peace Thielman
Joan Rosalind Vinson
Donna Kriegbaum Weber
1993
BSN
Pamela Wells Akhter
Deborah Brown Ballard
Rushani Sie Brooks
Shelley Kincaid Bunting
Karyn James Burke
Pamela Proctor Criscitiello
Teresa Denise Gainer
Gretchen Komich Goodson
Martha Ann Haywood
Shannan Mingia Kornegay
Linda Hendrix Lee
Margaret Perkett Lee
Melba Howard McNeill
Michelle Simoneau Mill
Frank Douglas Moore
Tina Marie Morris
Karen Williams Parks
Kelly Rene Peek
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Ronald Keith Shank
Bobbie Jo Lee Simpson
Tamatha Link Vinson
Kristie Lee Willis
Holly Noel Wilson
MSN
Kimberly Elizabeth Carr
Marianne T Evans
Robin Foell Johns
Allana Harper Minnick
Gina Lawson Young
1994
BSN
Mary McNeill Bowers
Courtney Snyder Brown
Susan McKinnon Collins
Katherine Finn Davis
Beverly Baucom Graham
Linda Sue Hale
Michele Johnson Hamilton
Danyel Beck Johnson
Karen Elise Kauffman
DeLeslie Walden Kiser
Melissa Chase Lang
Annie Ruffin Langley
Joan Steiniger Lucas
Sandra Thompson McCormick
Stacy Turkel Nicolau
Cheryl Wasserman Powers
J Brinkley Sugg
MSN
Suzanne Getman Gifford
Susan Elaine Marshall
Deborah Scheele Minanov
Elaine Patricia Moriarty
Susanne Smith Newton
Jean Ann Smith
Linda Baker Stover
Wanda Eileen Wazenegger
Dorothy Botsch Wishnietsky
PhD
Audrey Elaine Nelson
1995
BSN
Virginia Alexander Barnes
Bonnie Janell Booe
Jessica Stewart Brueggeman
Tonie Annette Durrah
Nikki Leigh Eldreth
Barbara Mialik Fisher
Mary Edel Holtschneider
Wendy Ann Hubal
Vicki Ferrell Lewis
Maria Lisa Lockwood
Elizabeth Hilton Long
Karen Michelle McGrath
Susan Lee Minnix
Karen Lynn Overman
Ronald Stephen Riggle
MSN
Fay Linette Brown
Mary Frances McCaffrey-Murphy
Margaret Berg Mullinix
Susan Gatlin O'Dell
Donna Suzanne Odem
Brenda Joyce Olinger
PhD
Mary Jean Thorson
1996
BSN
Christa Abrams Allen
Marie Britt Britt
Kelly Whitley Clark
Cathy Cramer Clayton
Cristian Carmichael Coleman
Elizabeth Langford Hall
Jennifer Jorgenson
Shawne Taylor Llewellyn
Antoinette Lynn Miller
Virginia Johnson Patterson
Lesley Allen Priest
Patty Thomas Raynor
Faith Junghahn Shaw
Kathleen MacEachen Siemer
Beth Perry Stanfield
Angie Efstation Stanley
Amy Lauren Talbert
Stephanie Harris Turner
Jennifer Lasher Ward
Sommany S. Weber
MSN
Lisa Ann Corn
Sharon Anne Cullinan
Katy Suzanne Emmert
Ann Leichtle Hart
Sandra Lynn Jarr
Sue Ann Campbell Jatko
Richard Anderson Sutton
Marlene Stone Yates
PhD
Esther Mae Tesh
1997
BSN
Jennifer Brooks Carrick
Karen Harris Chance
Sherry Reitzel Cook
Karen Denise Dellinger
Megan Roberts Farrell
Martha Rowland Fish
Pamela Garris Gaddy
Kimberly Ardell Hamden
Rachel Beth Heller
Christina Sloop Huitt
Linda D Kessler
Karen Fink Kissel
Jennifer Simms Kolb
Margaret Karen Landreth
Savannah Lapinskes
Shannon Singleton Marbrey
Kelly Wall Margraf
Kelly Mullis McNeill
Bradley Alan Morgan
Delores Ann Price
Susan Catherine Rebert
Rachel Conrad Sadler
Melinda Helms Sander
Julie Michelle Schneider
Jennifer Boulware Tatum
Lois White Thomley
Deborah Kerens Wagner
Monica Black Welborn
Amy Greene White
MSN
Linda Morgan Allen
Bonita Craft Aycock
Jill Causby Barbour
Liliana Donoso Berman
Anita Lanier Brown
Kelly A Fogarty
Cecelia Agnes Landon
Brenda Stevens Boyd Macarages
Dia Del Paggio Roberts
Bobbie Jo Lee Simpson
Brookie Allen Wood
PhD
Mary Jo Strauss Gilmer
Carolyn Jane Graham
Sally Miller Maliski
Sheila Judge Santacroce
Barbara Jean Speck
1998
BSN
Nanci Brinn Ahearn
Kiotta Latrise Barnhill
Melanie Dawn Berthel
Elizabeth Maynard Doles
Amy West Eller
Kristin Kalbach Garrett
Crystal Yarbrough Horton
Kristin Ausband Linker
Julie Elizabeth Meyer
Kimberly Stewart Myers
Sara McWhorter Prevost
Jennifer Brown Rich
Jennifer Leigh Ripple
Ann Atkinson Robertson
Tracey Shanee Robertson
Connie Kothera Schwarzen
Kristin Ann Speckhard
Lisa Misako Swencki
Jevita Denise Terry
Joanna Stewart Teske
Kelly Buche Tiernan
Jean Patterson Wester
Sarah Li-Wen Wu
MSN
Patricia Garrett Bernstein
Catherine Emigholz Drozd
Judith Hallock
Michele Sease Head
Sylvia Monteith Ledford
Kathryn Sanders Lytle
Virginia Allan McNair
John Clyde Stover
Cindy Michelle Thrower
Diane Marie Yorke
1999
BSN
Leah Nicole Adkins
Danielle Nicole Koonce Cecil
Ashley Lewis Clark
Mary Ellen Eakright
Caroline Curry Ferrell
Amy Elizabeth Giles
Carey Tyler Hagler
Tana Black Jenkins
Kelley L Knight
Melanie Elizabeth McCann
Linda MacMorran McElveen
Wendy Leigh Meyers
Dylan Kieran Miller
Courtney Goforth Renegar
Rebecca Ann Riesser
Stacey Nicole Sondecker
Christian Lee Turner
Jennifer Greene White
Susanne Relfe Winslow
MSN
Jenny Leong Abernathy
Deborah Brown Ballard
Kathy Baluha
Michele Johnson Hamilton
Laura Anne Harvey
Joanna Y Hiller
Linda Louellen Hopp
Amy Elizabeth Jeroloman
Shawne Taylor Llewellyn
Frank Douglas Moore
Carol Elizabeth Powell
Leslie McDonough Sharpe
Anne Skaife Willet
PhD
Susan Gale Sherman
Julie Smith Taylor
2000
BSN
Linda Bowling
Blaine York Brower
Nancy Rowe Cameron
Kelly Lynne Chelf
Cynthia deRoulhac Clark
Virginie Blackwell Cloutier
Elizabeth Ann Dawson
Abigail Nicole Ensign
Lora Barnhardt Gensheimer
Merrie Beth Gough
Miriam Leigh Greene
Dawn Shaelee Howell
Sonya Robertson Hupman
Andria Kara Kokoszka
Gail Hogue Pernell
Sandra Knight Rodriguez
Katherine Crutchfield Vaughn
Eric Stephen Wolak
MSN
Anna Catherine Alston
Patricia S Ashland
Shelley Kincaid Bunting
Elizabeth Langford Hall
Michael Wayne Joyner
Judith Ellen Swasey
Stephanie Harris Turner
PhD
Debra Huffman Brandon
2001
BSN
Jillian Henretta Angel
Jacqueline Marie Carpenter
Heather Denise Clark
Lisa Woodruff Cosper
Jill Marie Forcina
Meg Gambrell
BethAnn Marie Guevara
Walter George Jones Jr
Adam Darrell Kokoszka
Darci Leiter LaMontagne
Alan Ray Novotny
Courtney Rawls
Yasmin Natasha Singleton
Susan Zucker Spell
Karla Brooke Spitzer
MSN
Karen Denise Dellinger
Linda Sue Hale
Heather Thompson Mackey
Tracey Shanee Robertson
Tonya Rutherford-Hemming
Gregory Alphonzia Simpson
Jane Brezinski Tomasi
2002
BSN
Amy Davis Bell
Tammara Sorocko Benjamin
Jennifer Kathryne Bromberg
Megan St Clair Bumgarner
Kristen Stott Camplin
Donna Way Chapin
Pattie Jones Christopher
Leslie Ann Collins
Jeffrey John Dudley
Elizabeth Elise Mills
Brandy Elise Motsinger
Mary Thompson Newcomb
Lucille Stokes Purser
Sarah Anne Ricks
Katie Brigden Todd
MSN
Sara Lynne Emory
Linda E Heeg
Andea Morawski Mew
Jennifer Rene Shoaf
Beth Perry Stanfield
Irene Powell Strickland
Mary O'Fallon Vinzani
PhD
Susan H Brunssen
2003
BSN
Class of 2003
MSN
Karla Jean Brown
Deane E Schweinsberg
Susan Gordon Sheffield
ALUMNI NOTES
1967
Barbara Jo Foley (BSN) recently
became a proud first-time grand-mother.
Matthew Patrick Foley was
born August 1, 2003. Foley is a
SON clinical associate professor
and a member of the School of
Nursing Foundation, Inc.
1970
Janet Askew Sipple (MSN)
received an honorary doctorate
from the University of Southern
Queensland (Australia) for her
work in international nursing edu-cation.
Sipple currently serves as
the dean of St. Luke’s School of
Nursing in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, and is a member of
the School of Nursing Foundation,
Inc.
1972
Barbara Anthony Hotelling
(BSN) currently serves as the presi-dent
of Lamaze International and
as a council member for the
Coalition for Improving Maternity
Services.
1981
Kathy Shields (BSN) married
Michael Austin on August 9 on St.
Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.
She earned an MSN in 1995 from
East Carolina University in
Greenville, North Carolina, and has
served as a certified nurse midwife
for the past eight years in
Charlotte, North Carolina. She and
Michael plan to continue living in
Charlotte.
Karen E. Walker (BSN) was
awarded a mentored research sci-entist
award from the National
Institutes of Nursing Research for a
three-year study entitled “Self-
Monitored Physical Activity for
Weight Maintenance.” She is an
assistant professor in the
Department of Nursing at the
College of Health Professions at
Temple University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
1988
Robin Dawson Estrada (BSN ’88,
MSN ’96) became the proud parent
of Mia Grace in May 2003. Mia
joins her older siblings Claire, four
years old, and Spencer, aged three.
1993
Pamela Proctor Criscitiello
(BSN) and her husband are relo-cating
to Maryland. While her hus-band
is completing a postdoctoral
program in immunology at the
University of Maryland, Pam will
work with oncology patients at the
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive
Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.
1995
Mary Holtschneider (BSN) was
elected to a three-year term on the
American Association of Critical
Care Nurses Board of Directors.
Vicki Ferrell Lewis (BSN) and her
husband, Jim, welcomed their third
daughter, Fiona Kathryn, into the
world May 29, 2003.
Kristina Williams Wilson (BSN
’95, MSN ’00) and her husband,
Chris, are the proud parents of
daughter Kasi Marie, born on
February 28, 2003. The family lives
in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina.
1997
Jill Hardin Knox (BSN) has been
accepted into the family nurse
practitioner program at Western
Carolina University in Cullowhee,
North Carolina.
1998
Kristin Kalbach Garrett (BSN)
and her husband, Jason, welcomed
son James Douglas into their fami-ly
on May 30, 2003.
Julie Elizabeth Meyer (BSN) has
been selected as a member of the
Institute for Nursing Excellence by
the North Carolina Center for
Nursing. Meyer serves as a staff
nurse at Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center in Winston-
Salem, North Carolina.
2000
Jerilyn “Lyn” Cvjetnicanin
Rodgers (BSN) and her husband,
Owen, are the happy parents of
their first child, Graham Peter,
born December 14, 2002.
2003
Rebecca Gary (PhD) won the 2003
Arteriosclerosis/Heart Failure
Research Prize from the American
Heart Association’s Council on
Cardiovascular Nursing for her
original research on home-based
exercise for women with diastolic
heart failure. The prize is one of
AHA’s most prestigious awards.
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March 2004
Kemble Lecture featuring Dr. Betty Ferrell and reception March 1
honoring Dr. Jo Ann Dalton upon her retirement
History Taking and Physical Examination: March 2, 16, 23, 30
Sharpening Your Skills
Substance Abuse Update March 5
15th Annual PACU & Ambulatory Surgery Conference March 13
Survival Skills for Nurse Educators March 18
in Staff Development Roles
Career Opportunities in Clinical Research: Understanding March 20–May 1
the Roles & Responsibilities of CRA and CRC
April 2004
Cutting Edge: Hot Topics in Neurology & Neurosurgery April 2
Test Construction for Critical Thinking in Nursing Education April 3
ONS Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Course April 14–15
Certificate in Clinical Leadership April 19–23
Latino Culture & Language April 22
SON Foundation Board meeting April 22
Pediatric Nursing Review Course April 28–30
May 2004
4th Annual End of Life Care Conference May 7
History Taking and Physical Examination: May 7, 14, 21, 28
Sharpening Your Skills
School of Nursing Commencement May 8
Beginning Principles of Teaching in Nursing May 10–13
5th Annual Pain Conference May 13
Nurse Practitioner Review Course May 25–27
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